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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Sylvia Mary Burns

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Name Burns, Sylvia Mary
Date of birth 27th September 1929
Place of birth Keighley, West Yorkshire
Joined WLA 18 July 1947
Left WLA 18 June 1948
WLA No. 185105
Trained Ravensden
Employed Employed by War. Ag. at Chimney Corner
Married name  
Further information Former textile spinner, joined aged 17. Involved in a collision between Land Army truck containing Land Girls with a truckload of Italian POWs travelling in the opposite direction. Suffered fractured ribs and concussion and was granted an early release from the WLA.

Sylvia Burns
Sylvia burns working in the Cox's Orange Pippin Orchards at Cockayne Hatley in the 1940s

Sylvia Burns
Sylvia Burns in 2008

 



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