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

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, 1949 at Hasells Hall In training at Ravensden Hostel l-r: Doreen Carter, Bunny and Bessie 'Tommy' Florence Tompsett Cornstacks, Hasells Hall, Sandy, 1949 Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett left and Edith 'Tiny' Barlow right In training at Ravensden Hostel, October 1948 l-r: Doreen Carter and Bessie '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 Edith 'Tiny' Barlow, Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett and ? Hasells Hall 1949 Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett top right and Edith 'Tiny' Barlow second left middle row Hasells Hall 1949 Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett right Playing rounders at Hasells Hall 1949 Group of Land Girls in civvies Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett bottom right Threshing Gang at Tempsford Bessie 'Tommy' Tompsett centre 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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