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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Grace Lilian Cross

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Name Cross, Grace Lilian
Date of birth 23 January 1922
Place of birth Luton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 8 June 1942
Left WLA 30 November 1950
WLA No. 82185
Trained  
Employed Employed by the War Ag. at Milton Ernest and Cople Hostels.
Married name  
Further information Former clerk, aged 20.  Became forewoman at Cople Hostel. Passed General Farm Work Proficiency Test.
Chosen to represent Beds WLA at the national 1946 Victory Parade in London, 8 June 1946. (Luton News, 23 May 1946 and The Land Girl Magazine June 1946, No.3 Vol.7 p13)
[More photos of Grace Cross can be found at www.ampthillimages.com]
Grace Cross
(This photo is reproduced with kind permission of www.ampthillimages.com)

Stageshow

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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