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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Grace Vera Frances Buckeridge

Name	Buckeridge, Grace Vera Frances
Date of birth	21 March 1926
Place of birth	Hampstead Heath, London
Joined WLA	1 August 1944
Left WLA	28 September 1945
WLA No.	148317
Trained	On the job training at Bolnhurst Hostel
Employed	Employed by Beds. War. Ag. at the Bolnhurst Hostel
Married name	Norman
Further information	Former office assistant, aged 18. Enrolled in Luton. Moved, in the 1950's, to Queensland, Australia.
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 Bolnhurst group on lorry bonnet outside their hostel c1944 (l to r) Top: Doris Harris; Middle row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie Allen Bottom row: Joyce Irving, Marion Ellison, Mabel Frost, Grace Buckeridge The wedding of land girl Olive Turner in London c.1944 (l-r) Peggy Shaw, Grace Buckeridge, Mary Warner, Eric Sharp, Olive Sharp nee Turner (bride), Zeita Trott (bridesmaid), Doreen Kempster, Mabel Bone, Doris Harris Caption: Mobile gang with their lorry outside Bolnhurst hostel, 1945 (l to r) Top row: Mabel Bone, Marion Ellison, Doris Harris, Grace Buckeridge Middle left: Sheila Wilson Bottom row: Dorothy Carlyle, Chris Shouler, Vera Jobling, Elsie (Allen?)

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