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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joyce Edith Irving

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > I
Name Irving, Joyce Edith
Date of birth 4 February 1922
Place at enrolment Bedford, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 20th July 1942
Left WLA 19 October 1946
WLA No. 90468
Trained On the job
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Bolnhurst Hostel.
Married name Ingle
Further information Former shop assistant, aged 20. Demobilised.
Joyce Irving

Joyce in 1942

Bolnhurst group on lorry bonnet outside their hostel c1944

Bolnhurst group on lorry bonnet outside their hostel c1944
(l to r) Top: Doris Harris;
Middle row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie Allen
Bottom row: Joyce Irving, Marion Ellison, Mabel Frost, Grace Buckeridge

Doreen Kempster, Marion Ellison and Joyce Irving with calf

Doreen Kempster, Marion Ellison, Joyce Irving (l-r)

Joyce Irving

Joyce in 2002

 


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