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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Ellen May Godfrey

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Name Godfrey, Ellen May
Date of birth 21 November 1920
Place at enrolment Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
Joined WLA 7 April 1942
Left WLA 15 September 1950
WLA No. 70896
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Leighton Buzzard hostel (to January 1950) and by private farmer Mr. Thompson on a market garden.
Married name Perkins
Further information Former machine operator, aged 21. Living in Leagrave, Bedfordshire at enrolment. Left on marriage.
First intake of Leighton Buzzard Land Girls, May 1942

First intake of land girls heading for Leighton Buzzard Hostel - 4th May 1942.
Joyce How is 2nd from left and Ellen May Godfrey is 3rd from right.
Photo courtesy of Luton News

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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