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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Ruby King

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Name King, Ruby
Date of birth 14 August 1918
Place at enrolment Meppershall, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 9 July 1942
Left WLA 28 January 1946
WLA No. 88769
Trained [Not known]
Employed Privately by C.J Ellet, market gardener (former head gardener at Chicksands Priory) in Meppershall.
Married name Unmarried
Further information Former glove maker in Meppershall, then briefly in the glasshouse industry, aged 23 on entry. Demobbed, but continued to work for Ellet and his successor the Allingham Brothers after the war.

 


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