Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Monica 'Mona' McKenna

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 House hostel land girls Mona McKenna and Jean Sands 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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