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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Ethel Elizabeth Sweenie

Name	Sweenie, Ethel Elizabeth
Date of birth	20 February 1927
Place of birth	East Kilbride, Lanarkshire
Joined WLA	3 June 1943
Left WLA	28 February 1946
WLA No.	123840
Trained	On the job.
Employed	Employed first at Potters Bar in Middlesex, and then by Beds. War. Ag at the Bolnhurst Hostel.
Married name	Wildey
Further information	Former clerk, aged 17 on entry. Transferred from Southall, London to Bedfordshire 21 January 1944.
Ethel (middle) with Grace Buckeridge (left) and Elsie Allen (right) Ethel during the war To see the full picture click here Wartime picnic (l to r) Grace Buckeridge, Ethel Sweenie, 'Buddy', Mary Warner and fiance (?) Scales Top Row: Margaret 'Peggy' Shaw Middle Row (l-r): Margaret 'Peggy' Deag, Ethel Sweenie Bottom Row (l-r): Phyllis Swanwick, Gladys Higgins, Vera Jobling, Grace Buckeridge, Elsie Allen Ethel in 2002
Oral Reminiscence	Listen to Ethel's reminiscences of life in the Bolnhurst hostel (42.3 MB). Extract from interview with Stuart Antrobus. The full interview is lodged with the sound archive of the Imperial War Museum: Ethel Wildey (24663).

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