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Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Phyllis 'Betty' Isabel Laverick

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Name Laverick, Phyllis 'Betty' Isabel
Date of birth 19 October 1925
Place at enrolment Bishop Auckland, County Durham
Joined WLA April 1943 [?]
Left WLA April 1945 [?]
WLA No. [Not known]
Trained Hilltop Farm, Woolley Edge, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Potton Hostel, 'The Hollies'.
Married name Wadsworth
Further information Former shop assistant, aged 17 [?] on entry.  Lived in Wakefield.  Transferred to Bedfordshire.  General farming and market gardening.
Potton land girls in front of the entrance to The Hollies.

In the entrance to The Hollies, the WLA Hostel in King Street, Potton.
Front right - Phyllis 'Betty' Laverick (with hair in curlers)

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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