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Three Bedfordshre Land Girls in Torquay Rest Home

Three Bedfordshre Land Girls in Torquay Rest Home

Three Land Girls on the winter seafront at Torquay during their stay at the WLA Rest House in December 1948. Mabel Bracey, on the left, was later to be one of the young women representing Bedfordshire WLA in the final disbandment parade at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday 21 October, before Queen Elizabeth, Patron of the WLA. Source: M Stratford. Courtesy of Stuart Antrobus

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