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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Rubi Grace Coombs

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Name Coombs, Rubi Grace
Date of birth 2 December 1924
Born Greenwich, London
Joined WLA 22 June 1942
Left WLA 29 October 1945
WLA No. 85064
Trained On the job
Employed Employed by Sussex War Ag. then by Beds. War Ag. at Milton Ernest hostel and at Bolnhurst hostel.
Married name Liscombe
Further information Former invoice typist. Threshing machine once caught fire at Swineshead, when Rubi was on corn stack. She managed to escape by sliding down the back of the stack.

 


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