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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joy Holton

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Name Holton, Joy
Date of birth 14 April 1928
Place at enrolment Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Joined WLA 25 August 1945
Left WLA 30 November 1950
WLA No. 159725
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Toddington Park Hostel and then at Handscombe's Riverside Farm (poultry), Langford.
Married name Handscombe
Further information Former poultry worker, aged 17. Living in Henlow on enrolment. Stayed on land after WLA disbandment and married the farmer's son.

 


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