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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Dorothy 'Dot' Carlyle

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Name Carlyle, Dorothy 'Dot'
Date of birth 29 October 1913
Born Luton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 29 September 1929
Left WLA 18 November 1949
WLA No. 99703
Trained  
Employed Employed by War Ag. at Bolnhurst Hostel
Married name  
Further information Former machinist, aged 28.  Completed contract.  Passed market garden and field work proficiency test.

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 Hostel Fifth Anniversary Party, 1947

Mrs. Eugster (standing) as Dot Carlyle cuts hostel's fifth anniversary cake, October 1947.

Bolnhurst girls rick-making

Bolnhurst girls rick-making
Dorothy Carlyle, Sheila Wilson, Elise Allen, Doris Beevers

 

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