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. |
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. In the garden of 'The Hollies', Potton. |
Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
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