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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Doris Harris

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Name Bone, Mabel
Date of birth 1 May 1928
Place of birth Bedford, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA 26 October 1942
Left WLA 26 September 1945
WLA No. 162472
Trained On the job
Employed Employed by the War Ag. at Bolnhurst Hostel
Married name West
Further information Former shop assistant. Left to marry an American GI.

The wedding of land girl Olive Turner in London c.1944

The wedding of land girl Olive Turner in London c.1944
(l-r)
Peggy Shaw, Grace Buckeridge, Mary Warner, Eric Sharp, Olive Sharp nee Turner (bride), Zeita Trott (bridesmaid), Doreen Kempster, Mabel Bone, Doris Harris

Bolnhurst land girls on the bonnet of a lorry

Caption: Mobile gang with their lorry outside Bolnhurst hostel, 1945
(l to r) Top row: Mabel Bone,
Marion Ellison, Doris Harris, Grace Buckeridge
Middle left: Sheila Wilson
Bottom row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie (Allen?)

 



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