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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Jean Gladys Herald

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Name Herald, Jean Gladys
Date of birth 18 March 1924
Place at enrolment Paddington, London
Joined WLA 22 March 1943
Left WLA 18 March 1946
WLA No. 111608
Trained Potton
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Potton hostel.
Married name Abbott
Further information Former dancer, aged 19. Transferred to Bedfordshire. Employed in market gardening locally. Worked most of the time at Waterloo Farm between Everton and Tempsford, and also Maynards Farm, Biggleswade. Demobilised.
Potton land girls enjoying themselves

Jean Herald (extreme left), Constance Wood (third from left) and Rosina 'Rose' Flewers (third form right) join with fellow land girls in celebrating their inter-hostel competition win.

Potton land girls in the garden

In the garden of 'The Hollies', Potton.
(l-r) Pat Britton, 'Babbles', Rose Alice Flewers, Connie Wood, Betty Feltham

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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