Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Sylvia Preater
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| Name | Preater, Sylvia |
| Date of birth | 11 September 1924 |
| Born | Birmingham |
| Joined WLA | 18 December 1944 |
| Left WLA | 18 April 1946 |
| WLA No. | 152508 |
| Trained | Ravensden |
| Employed | Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Milton Ernest hostel. |
| Married name | Wiley |
| More information | Former wages clerk, aged 20 on entry. Had a relationship with a GI bomber pilot, Gerry Wiley, at the end of the war but did not marry until 27 December 1975 (they had both been married to others and then divorced). They lived in Texas and later Gloucestershire, England. Her sister Myra was also a land girl at Milton Ernest and married a GI and lived in the United States. |
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