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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Doris 'Dorothy' Eva Hurren

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Name Hurren, Doris 'Dorothy' Eva
Date of birth 25 October 1921
Born Islington, London
Joined WLA 19 October 1939
Left WLA 29 September 1944
WLA No. 12734
Trained Midland Agricultural College, Sutton Bonnington,1939.  Dorothy did four weeks training in poultry husbandry.
Employed Employed by private farmers: Home Farm, Southill Park; Chawston Manor (poultry farm).
Married name Keightley
Further information Joined aged 17. Transferred to Bedfordshire from Huntingdonshire 25 October 1940. Specialised in poultry. Left to get married.

Dorothy Hurren

'Dorothy' Hurren, aged 18

Dorothy Hurren

Dorothy Hurren at Chawston Manor Farm, 1942

Dorothy Hurren

Dorothy Hurren with sheep dog Nell at Southill Park Home Farm



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