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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Doreen "Dawn" Skeggs

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Name Skeggs, Doreen "Dawn"
Date of birth 3 April 1927
Born Manor Park, London
Joined WLA 21 September 1943
Left WLA 31 March 1950
WLA No. 138044
Trained On the job.
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Milton Ernest hostel
Married name Filby
More information Former shop assistant, 17 years on joining, transferred from Essex to Bedfordshire 2 September 1943. Last post-war Forewoman at Milton Ernest hostel.

Dawn Skeggs at entrance to Milton Ernest hostel

Dawn in 1943

Hitching a lift

Dawn Skeggs & Evelyn Hayers hitching a lift

Dawn Skeggs 2002

Dawn in 2002


 (left to right) Ann Haynes nee Brodrick, Kathleen Cox nee Hopkins, Dawn Filby nee Skeggs, Mary Smith nee Pakes (cutting cake) Trixie Schreiner nee Saunders, Irene Saunders nee Cook, Peggy Albertson nee Davis, Hilda Hicks nee Bright
See more about the Milton Ernest get together (August 2010) on the Recent News page

 

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