Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Molly Gage
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > G
Name | Gage, Molly |
Date of birth | 24 December 1917 |
Place at enrolment | London |
Joined WLA | 1942? |
Left WLA | 30 November 1943 |
WLA No. | 12061 |
Trained | [Not known] |
Employed | [Not known] |
Married name | Coombes |
Further information | Former wholesale store room assistant. Suffered with deafness from birth. Transferred to Bedfordshire November 1942. Her sisters, Betty Gage and Nancy Joan Gage, were also land girls in Bedfordshire. Married Lancelot Douglas Wynne Coombes 28 November 1942. Left when pregnant with first child, Anita Gillian. Died 22 March 1986 in Malvern Worcestershire. |
Molly Gage c.1939 Molly Gage on a horse with farm worker c.1941 (Left to right) Nancy Joan Gage, (two other unknown land girls, Molly Gage (Group photo) Molly Gage is 3rd from left; her sister Nancy Joan Gage is second from the right Molly Gage on the bicycle with pitchfork (right) and her sister Nancy Joan Gage (left) |
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