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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joan Cloran

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > C
Name Cloran, Joan
Date of birth 18 December 1928
Place at enrolment Manchester, Lancashire
Joined WLA 7 May 1947
Left WLA 18 October 1949
WLA No. 181820
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Clifton Hostel.
Married name Dalton
Further information Former dress machinist, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 17 May 1947. Left on completion of contract.
Clifton land girls

(left to right) Elsie Mills, Joan Cloran, and Eileen Elliott at Clifton Hostel c. 1947

Guard of honour at wedding

Land girls guard of honour for a wedding at All Saints Church, Clifton, October 1947.
Front Row (l-r): First, Dorothy Hart, fourth along Joan Cloran, sixth along Elsie Mills, eighth along Eileen Elliott, third from right Margaret Piper
Back Row (l-r): Fourth along Ivy Whitehead, eighth along Gladys Park

 

Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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