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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Margaret 'Marj' Jean Bandy

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Name Bandy, Margaret 'Marj' Jean
Date of birth 19 September 1924
Place at enrolment Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 1 August 1944
Left WLA 20 April 1949
WLA No. 148314
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel and Potton Hostel.
Married name [Not known]
Further information Former 'viewer', aged 19.
Margaret 'Marj' Bandy

'Marj' in Cople Hostel Group Photo, c. 1940s

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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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