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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Hilda Margele Virgin

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > V
Name Virgin, Hilda Margele
Date of birth 1925
Place at enrolment Luton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 3 September 1943
Left WLA 18 January 1949
WLA No. 137651
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Hulcote Moors Hostel.
Married name [Not known]
Further information Former housekeeper, aged 18. Demobilised.
Sister, Greta Joyce Virgin, also joined the WLA.
Maid of honour to (Audrey) Peggy Clark, May Queen, May 1944. (Bedford Record, 9 May 1944 p.1)
Hulcote Moors hostel group

Hulcote Moors hostel group with the Warden, Mrs Whatling, 1943
Back Row (l-r) Pamela Bell, Betty Hurst (?), Thelma Mathers, Vera Hull, Elizabeth Alice Braybrook, Myra Griffiths
Middle Row (l-r) Peggy Clark, Doris Bass, Edna Harris, Gladys Hinton (Housekeeper), Mrs E Watling (Warden), (Greta) Joyce Virgin, Hilda Virgin
Front Row (l-r) ?, Zoe Odell, Audrey Joan Hinde, Marjorie Prince, ?

 


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