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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joy Monica Collard

Name	Collard, Joy Monica
Date of birth	[not known]
Born	Stopsley, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA	13 June 1941
Left WLA	30 November 1950
WLA No.	46343
Trained	Luton Hoo
Employed	Employed at Luton Hoo and by the War Ag. at Cople Hostel
Married name
Further information	Former florist from Stopsley Nurseries, aged 19. Worked in the walled garden at Luton Hoo (1941-1945). Her carved name - 'Joy collard WLA 1941-1945' - can still be seen on a wooden shelf in the potting shed at Luton Hoo Walled Gardens. She then became Deputy Forewoman at Cople Hostel. Stayed on in horticulture after WLA disbandment. [Group photo in front of Luton Hoo conservatory, 2nd from left. SA's book p.121]
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?] Luton Hoo land girls in front of the conservatory in the walled garden, c1944. Joyce Collard is 2nd from the left in the back row and Kathleen Burgoyne is 2nd from the right in the front row.

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