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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

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.
Phyllis Reed Phyllis Reed Phyllis Reed Bates' Brothers, Staploe

(Left to Right) Constance 'Peg' Hopkins, Phyllis Reed, Mrs René Marshall and Freda Carter, 1942.

Staploe land girls

Bates Brothers' seed potato greenhouse, Staploe 1942
(l-r) Constance 'Peg' Hopkins, Mrs René Marshall (not a land girl), Phyllis Reed, Freda Carter

Phyllis Reed 2006

Phyllis Dobney (née Reed) 2006

 


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