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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joyce Gelder

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Name Gelder, Joyce
Date of birth 15 August 1926
Place of birth Wakefield, Yorkshire
Joined WLA 13 June 1944
Left WLA 29 October 1945
WLA No. 145831
Trained Toddington Park
Employed Hulcote Moors Hostel. Worked on farms in the Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Ampthill and Cranfield area.  General field work, harvesting and threshing.
Married name Colbeck
Further information Former clerk, aged 17.

Joyce Gelder

Joyce Gelder on leave in Wakefield in 1944

 



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