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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Ruby Grace Coombs

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Name Coombs, Ruby Grace
Date of birth 2 December 1924
Born Greenwich, London
Joined WLA 6 July 1942
Left WLA 2 October 1945
WLA No. 85064
Trained On the job
Employed Employed by Sussex War Ag. then by Beds. War Ag. at Milton Ernest hostel and at Bolnhurst hostel
Married name Liscombe
Further information Threshing machine once caught fire at Swineshead, when Rubi was on the corn stack.  She managed to escape by sliding down the back of the stack.

 



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