Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Elsie Mary Wallis
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Name | Wallis, Elsie Mary |
Date of birth | 9 October 1924 |
Place at enrolment | Pulham St. Mary, Norfolk |
Joined WLA | 24 March 1945 |
Left WLA | 19 October 1946 |
WLA No. | 154975 |
Trained | Ravensden |
Employed | Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Potton, Cople House and Sharnbrook House hostels. |
Married name | Thomas |
Further information | Joined, aged 20, from Shortstown, Bedfordshire, at the same time as her sister, Freda Wallis. Former fabric worker. They trained together and were at Potton together. Another (older) sister, Helen Wallis had joined earlier. After a surgical operation, Elsie worked on easier garden work with Liz Day on hostel gardens. |
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