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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Sheila May Wilson

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > W
Name Wilson, Sheila May
Date of birth 28 October 1925
Pace at enrolment Clophill, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 3 June 1943
Left WLA 18 February 1949
WLA No. 123684
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Bolnhurst hostel.
Married name Crouch
Further information Former factory packer, aged 17. Left on completion of contract.
Sister, Olive Joan Wilson, also joined the WLA.
Sheila Wilson

Sheila Wilson with sacks of cabbages

Bolnhurst land girls on the bonnet of a lorry

Caption: Mobile gang with their lorry outside Bolnhurst hostel, 1945
(l to r) Top row: Mabel Bone, Marion Ellison, Doris Harris, Grace Buckeridge
Middle left: Sheila Wilson
Bottom row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie (Allen?)

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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