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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Mary Ursula Hickey

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Name Hickey, Mary Ursula
Date of birth 14 July 1925
Born London
Joined WLA 15th February 1943
Left WLA 19th July 1947
WLA No. 107329
Trained On the job
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Leighton Buzzard, Kensworth and Whipsnade Hostels
Married name Cutler
Further information Joined aged 17 from Luton, former paint sprayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/ article no. A5484152

You can read a poem by Mary in Land Girl Poetry: Women's Land Army

Mary Hickey

Wardown Park Farm Sunday parade, June 1943

'Farm Sunday' Parade, Wardown Park,Luton, June 1943
(l-r) Mary Hickey (x) and Daisy Beard, Forewoman, leading the parade.

Kensworth Land Girls

(l-r) Betty ?, Mary Hickey and May Marsberg

 


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