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Vera Jobling

Name	Jobling, Vera
Date of birth	22 September 1927
Place of birth	Thornaby on Tees, North Yorkshire
Joined WLA	11 August 1943
Left WLA	18 October 1947
WLA No.	135018
Trained	On the job.
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel and then Bolnhurst Hostel
Married name	Barnett
Further information	Joined aged 17. Transferred from North Yorkshire to Bedfordshire 11 September 1943.
Vera in 1943
Jean Hartley (in front) and Vera Jobling
(l to r) Doreen Hirst, Vera Jobling and Hilary Fenwick
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
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?)
Bolnhurst Land Girls sitting in a field 'Fiss', Vera Jobling, Peggy Deag, Beatrice 'Betty' ?, Elsie ?
Vera in 2002

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