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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Georgina Mary Gray

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Name Gray, Georgina Mary "Georgie"
Date of birth  
Place of birth Clifton, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 1941
Left WLA 1946
WLA No. 58933
Trained Luton Hoo
Employed Henry "Harry" Cook at Harrowlene Farm, Felmersham
Married name Taylor
Further information Seven days a week machine milking,
"... as efficient and capable as any man...valuable and faithful services."
Post-war, attended one year full time course at Moulton Institute of Agriculture, Northants, studying stock rearing, dairy farming and farm secretarial work.
Awarded British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to Agriculture, January 1947 [Beds Times 10 Jan 1947, p4]
Subsequently joined Mr Taylor's nursery on the Isles of Scilly growing daffodils.

 



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