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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Monica 'Mona' McKenna

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Name McKenna, Monica 'Mona'
Date of birth 14 September 1924
Place at enrolment Blackhill, County Durham
Joined WLA 4 May 1944
Left WLA [Not known]
WLA No. 143880
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House hostel.
Married name [Not known]
Further information Former shop assistant, aged 19. Transferred to Cumberland then County Durham then to Bedfordshire 4 September 1944. Break in service January 1945 to 9 April 1949. Transferred to Oxfordshire.
Cople Land Girls - Mona McKenna and Jean Sands

Cople House hostel land girls
Mona McKenna and Jean Sands

Stageshow

Cople WLA Hostel concert party entertaining the troops 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 ______?, ?, Olwyn Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff]
Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

 


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