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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Barbara Mary Strike

Name	Strike, Barbara Mary
Date of birth	14 February 1926
Place of birth	London
Joined WLA	8 October 1946
Left WLA	24 December 1948
WLA No.	177526
Trained	[not known]
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel
Married name	[not known]
Further information	Former agricultural worker, aged 20. Transferred to Somerset in May 1948.
Cople WLA Hostel concert party entertaining the troups at Kempston Barracks, 30 June 1947. [Source: L Freestone] Back row: (l to r) ?, Joan Wood, Doreen Parish, Jean sands, Joy Collard, Kathleen Inker, Edna _____?, 'Betty' Wallis, Grace Cross Middle row: Mrs Truman [WLA Bedford HQ staff], ?, ?, Rose Perritt, Mona McKenna, Barbara Strike, ?, ? (with guitar), Dora ______?, ?, Olwyn Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff] Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

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