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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Bessie 'Tommy' Florence Tompsett

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Name Tompsett, Bessie 'Tommy' Florence
Date of birth 13 May 1928
Place at enrolment Bromley, Kent
Joined WLA 12 October 1948
Left WLA 4 May 1950
WLA No. 198408
Trained [Not known]
Employed Beds War Ag at Hasells Hall, Sandy, until it closed in December 1949, then Cople House hostel.
Married name Steward
Further information Former library assistant, aged 20. Transferred to Bedfordshire 25 October 1948.
Bessie 'Tommy' Florence Tompsett

Bessie 'Tommy' Florence Tompsett, 1949 at Hasells Hall

Ravensden Land Girls - Doreen Carter, Bunny and 'Tommy' Tompsett

In training at Ravensden Hostel
l-r: Doreen Carter, Bunny and Bessie 'Tommy' Florence Tompsett

Cornstacks, Hasells Hall, Sandy, 1949 - 'Tommy' Tompsett and 'Tiny' Barlow

Cornstacks, Hasells Hall, Sandy, 1949
Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett left and Edith 'Tiny' Barlow right

Ravensden, October 1948 - Doreen Carter and 'Tommy' Tompsett

In training at Ravensden Hostel, October 1948
l-r: Doreen Carter and Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett

Ravensden, October 1948 - Doreen Carter and 'Tommy' Tompsett

In training at Ravensden Hostel, October 1948
Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett (3rd from right), Betty (second from right), Bunny (third from left) and Doreen Carter (far left).

Hasells Hall, Sandy, 1949 - 'Tiny' Barlow, 'Tommy' Tompsett and ?

Hasells Hall, Sandy, 1949
Edith 'Tiny' Barlow, Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett and ?

Hasells Hall Group, 1949

Hasells Hall 1949
Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett top right and Edith 'Tiny' Barlow second left middle row

Hasells Hall Group, 1949

Hasells Hall 1949
Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett right

Playing rounders at Hasells Hall, 1949

Playing rounders at Hasells Hall 1949

Land girls in civvies

Group of Land Girls in civvies
Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett bottom right

Threshing gang at Tempsford

Threshing Gang at Tempsford
Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett centre

Group of Land Girls after threshing at Tempsford

Group of Land Girls after threshing at Tempsford
Top Row l-r: Nora, Olive Smith and Violet
Bottom Row l-r: Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett and Edith 'Tiny' Barlow

 


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