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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Ivy Whitehead

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Name Whitehead, Ivy
Date of birth 21 January 1928
Place at enrolment Liverpool, Lancashire
Joined WLA 6 June 1947
Left WLA 18 October 1948
WLA No. 183516
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Clifton House Hostel.
Married name [Not known]
More information Former clerk, aged 19. Transferred to Bedfordshire 17 June 1947. Served with Gladys Dawson on dairy farm at Campton. Left on completion of contract.
Guard of honour at wedding

Land girls guard of honour for a wedding at All Saints Church, Clifton, October 1947.
Front Row (l-r): First, Dorothy Hart, fourth along Joan Cloran, sixth along Elsie Mills, eighth along Eileen Elliott, third from right Margaret Piper
Back Row (l-r): Fourth along Ivy Whitehead, eighth along Gladys Park

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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