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. |
Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
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