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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Monica 'Mona' McKenna

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Name McKenna, Monica 'Mona'
Date of birth 11 June 1924
Place of birth Sunderland, County Durham
Joined WLA 6 August 1943
Left WLA 30 November 1950
WLA No. 134296
Trained [not known]
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Chimney Corner and Cople House Hostel and Mr Tinsley's Church Farm, Clapham
Married name Hewitt
Further information Former nurse, aged 19.  Stayed on the land after WLA disbandment.

Cople Land Girls - Mona McKenna and Jean Sands

Cople House hostel land girls
Mona McKenna and Jean Sands

Stageshow

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?]

 

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