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Vera Jobling

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Name Jobling, Vera
Date of birth 22 September 1927
Place at enrolment Thornaby on Tees, North Yorkshire
Joined WLA 11 August 1943
Left WLA 18 October 1947
WLA No. 135018
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Bolnhurst hostel & Cople House hostel as a driver.
Married name Barnett
Further information Joined aged 17.  Transferred from North Yorkshire to Bedfordshire 11 September 1943.
Vera Jobling

Vera in 1943

Jean Hartley and Vera Jobling

Jean Hartley (in front) and Vera Jobling

Bolnhurst - Land girl bathtime

(l to r) Doreen Hirst, Vera Jobling and Hilary Fenwick

Bolnhurst Hostel group on vehicle bonnet

Top Row: Margaret 'Peggy' Shaw
Middle Row (l-r): Margaret 'Peggy' Deag, Ethel Sweenie
Bottom Row (l-r): Phyllis Swanwick, Gladys Higgins, Vera Jobling, Grace Buckeridge, Elsie Allen

Bolnhurst group on lorry bonnet outside their hostel c1944

Bolnhurst group on lorry bonnet outside their hostel c1944
(l to r) Top: Doris Harris;
Middle row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie Allen
Bottom row: Joyce Irving, Marion Ellison, Mabel Frost, Grace Buckeridge

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?)

Bolnhurst land girls sitting in a field

Bolnhurst Land Girls sitting in a field
'Fiss', Vera Jobling, Peggy Deag, Beatrice 'Betty' ?, Elsie ?

Vera Jobling

Vera in 2002

 


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