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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Jean Preston

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Name Preston, Jean
Date of birth 3 February 1929
Place at enrolment Manchester, Lancashire
Joined WLA 24 June 1947
Left WLA 30 November 1950
WLA No. 184207
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Milton Ernest hostel.
Married name Rayner
Further information Former clerk typist, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 16 July 1947. Stayed on the land when WLA disbanded. Sister, Ellen Preston, also joined the WLA.

 


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