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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joan Eileen Berry

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > B
Name Berry, Joan Eileen
Date of birth 22 March 1928
Place at enrolment Darlaston, Staffordshire
Joined WLA 11 June 1946
Left WLA 19 July 1947
WLA No. 170774
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Kensworth House Hostel.
Married name [Not known]
Further information Former capstan operator, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 8 April 1946.
Joan Berry Kensworth Land Girls with Arthus Bodsworth

Kensworth land girls drinking shandy
(l-r) Joan Berry, Arthur Bodsworth ('Rhubarb' - Landlord of the 5 Bells, Eaton Bray) and Patricia 'Paddy' Benney

Kensworth Land Girls

(l-r) Gladys Barter ('Bart'), Joan Berry, Johnny Meakins (Threshing man) and Patricia 'Paddy' Benney

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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