Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Freda 'Betty' Wallis

Name	Wallis, Freda 'Betty'
Date of birth	18 November 1926
Place at enrolment	Pulham St. Mary, Norfolk
Joined WLA	24 March 1945
Left WLA	15 September 1950
WLA No.	154976
Trained	Ravensden
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Potton, Sharnbrook House and Cople House hostels.
Married name	Flegg
Further information	One of three sisters who joined the WLA - Elsie Wallis and Helen Wallis (the eldest who joined first). All worked in market gardening. Joined aged 18 from Shortstown, Bedfordshire. Formerly in domestic service. Left on completion of contract.
Cople House hostel land girls picking runner beans for local farmer Jack Saunders Local girl, Eileen Brown (centre), joins hostel land girls Connie Cumner (left) and Freda 'Betty' Wallis (right). Cople House hostel land girls on the Bedford river embankment (l-r) Kathleen Inker, 'Betty' Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell Cople WLA Hostel concert party entertaining the troups at Kempston Barracks, 30 June 1947. [Source: L Freestone] Back row: (l to r) ?, Joan Wood, Doreen Parish, Jean Sands, Joy Collard, Kathleen Inker, Edna _____?, 'Betty' Wallis, Grace Cross Middle row: Mrs Truman [WLA Bedford HQ staff], ?, ?, Rose Perritt, Mona McKenna, Barbara Strike, ?, ? (with guitar), Dora ______?, ?, Olwen Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff] Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

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