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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Thelma Grace Mathers

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Name Mathers, Thelma Grace
Date of birth 5 May 1924
Place at enrolment Bedford, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 28 July 1943
Left WLA 19 October 1946
WLA No. 132645
Trained [Not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Hulcote Moors hostel.
Married name [Not known]
Further information Former shop assistant, aged 19. Demobilised.
Maid of honour to the Land Girl May Queen 1944.
Hulcote Girls welcome the first American servicemen

Hulcote Girls welcome the first American servicemen
L to R Marjorie Prince, Peggy Clark, Thelma Mathers, Pearl Wright, Edna Harris, Doris Bass

Hulcote Moors hostel group

Hulcote Moors hostel group with the Warden, Mrs Whatling, 1943
Back Row (l-r) Pamela Bell, Betty Hurst (?), Thelma Mathers, Vera Hull, Elizabeth Alice Braybrook, Myra Griffiths
Middle Row (l-r) Peggy Clark, Doris Bass, Edna Harris, Gladys Hinton (Housekeeper), Mrs E Watling (Warden), (Greta) Joyce Virgin, Hilda Virgin
Front Row (l-r) ?, Zoe Odell, Audrey Joan Hinde, Marjorie Prince, ?

 


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