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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Gladys Park

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Name Park, Gladys
Date of birth 16 May 1930
Born Liverpool, Lancashire
Joined WLA 16 June 1947
Left WLA 28 May 1949
WLA No. 183508
Trained Ravensden and Toddington Park
Employed Employed first by a private farmer, Col. Diggles at Old Warden then by Beds. War Ag. at Clifton Hostel
Married name Dawson
Further Information Former laboratory worker, aged 18 on entry. Her sister, Florence, also employed as a land girl in North Wales.

Gladys Park
Gladys Park, driver "ganger"
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Guard of honour at wedding

Land girls guard of honour for a wedding at All Saints Church, Clifton, October 1947.
Front Row (l-r): fourth along
Joan Cloran, sixth along Elsie Mills, eighth along Eileen Elliott, third from right Margaret Piper
Back Row (l-r): Fourth along
Ivy Whitehead, eighth along Gladys Park

 



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