Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Jean Sands

Name	Sands, Jean
Date of birth	24 February 1928
Place at enrolment	Barnsley, Yorkshire
Joined WLA	25 September 1945
Left WLA	18 December 1947
WLA No.	160748
Trained	Ravensden
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel. (Briefly at Bolnhurst and Sharnbrook hostels.)
Married name	Ritchie
Further information	Former factory worker, aged 17. Transferred to Bedfordshire 13 October 1945. Demobilised. Mainly market gardening at Langford for Mr Brown and John Kendal.
Cople House hostel land girls Mona McKenna and Jean Sands Cople House hostel land girls on the Bedford river embankment (l-r) Kathleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell Cople WLA Hostel concert party entertaining the troups at Kempston Barracks, 30 June 1947. [Source: L Freestone] Back row: (l to r) ?, Joan Wood, Doreen Parish, Jean Sands, Joy Collard, Kathleen Inker, Edna _____?, 'Betty' Wallis,Grace Cross Middle row: Mrs Truman [WLA Bedford HQ staff], ?, ?, Rose Perritt, Mona McKenna, Barbara Strike, ?, ? (with guitar), Dora ______?, ?, Olwen Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff] Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

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