Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joan Wood

Name	Wood, Joan
Date of birth	16 August 1924
Place at enrolment	Bradford, Yorkshire
Joined WLA	11 August 1943
Left WLA	25 February 1950
WLA No.	135122
Trained	[Not known]
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House hostel.
Married name	[Not known]
Further information	Former dressmaker, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 11 September 1943. Left on medical grounds.
Cople Hostel Land Girls (Standing) Edith Jones, Vera Kay, Joan Wood (Sitting) Laura Catterick 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?] (l-r) Barbara Harker, Doreen Heales and Joan Wood in the grounds of Cople House Hostel.

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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land GirlsJoan Wood