Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Phyllis May Reed
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Name | Reed, Phyllis May |
Date of birth | Born 1920 |
Place at enrolment | Toseland, Huntingdonshire |
Joined WLA | 12 June 1942 |
Left WLA | 29 September 1945 |
WLA No. | 83424 |
Trained | [Not known] |
Employed | Bates Brothers' Farms, Staploe |
Married name | Dobney |
Further Information | Former tailor's machinist, aged 21. Transferred to Bedfordshire 22 June 1942. Left when unable to do full-time work. Lived at home while a land girl doing arable work. |
(Left to Right) Constance 'Peg' Hopkins, Phyllis Reed, Mrs René Marshall and Freda Carter, 1942. Bates Brothers' seed potato greenhouse, Staploe 1942 Phyllis Dobney (née Reed) 2006 |
Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
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