Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Elizabeth Mary Blair Day
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll of Honour > D
Name | Day, Elizabeth 'Liz' Mary Blair |
Date of birth | 26 April 1913 |
Place of birth | Dungee Farm, Odell, Bedfordshire |
Joined WLA | 5 August 1940 |
Left WLA | 30 November 1950 |
WLA No. | 36558 |
Trained | Previous farm experience and training on the job in dairy farming (Garner's Dairy Farm, Kempston) and market gardening. |
Employed | Employed by private farmers: Issac Godber's nursery at Willington for 3-4 years, using horses. Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel and elsewhere. |
Married name | (Unmarried) |
Further information | Appointed Forewoman. Part-time tutor at Ravensden training hostel. Mixed farming, then county-wide responsibility for hostel gardens. Awarded British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to the Women's Land Army. Attended full time horticulture course at Swanley (Kent Agricultural Institute) 1947/48. Then did experimental agricultural work with gangs for Unilever at Colmworth, post-war. |
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