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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Kathleen 'Kath' Helen Inker

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > I
Name Inker, Kathleen 'Kath' Helen
Date of birth 19 January 1928
Place at enrolment Bristol, Gloucestershire
Joined WLA 31 August 1946
Left WLA 18 November 1949
WLA No. 176136
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel.
Married name James
Further information Former cardboard box maker, aged 18. Transferred to Bedfordshire 9 September 1946. Left on completion of contract.
Cople Land Girls on the Embankment - Katleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell

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?]

Ailsa Hogg, Barbara Harkerand Kathleen Inker in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

(l-r) Ailsa Hogg, Barbara Harker and Kathleen Inker in the grounds of Cople House Hostel.

 


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