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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Joan Woods

Name	Wood, Joan
Date of birth	16 August 1924
Place of birth	Bradford, Yorkshire
Joined WLA	11 August 1943
Left WLA	22 February 1950
WLA No.	135122
Trained
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople hostel
Married name
Further information	Former dressmaker, aged 18.
Cople Hostel Land Girls (Standing) Edith Jones, Vera Kay, Joan Wood (Sitting) Laura Catterick 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?] (l-r) Barbara Harker, Doreen Heales and Joan Wood in the grounds of Cople House Hostel

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