Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Phyllis Ethel Unsworth

Name	Unsworth, Phyllis Ethel
Date of birth	31 August 1931
Place at enrolment	Bedford, Bedfordshire
Joined WLA	29 April 1949
Left WLA	19 December 1949
WLA No.	200391
Trained	[Not known]
Employed	Employed by Beds. War Ag. at an unknown Hostel [Sharnbrook?]
Married name	Walton, later Egan
Further Information	Former factory worker, aged 17. [Phyllis was among the last few thousand recruits taken on before the organisation stopped recruitment, late in 1949. Note that her WLA number indicates that well over 200,000 young women had so far served in the Women's Land Army in England and Wales since 1939. Active recruitment ended after October 1949, although girls were accepted up to 31 March 1950, within the limits set by the Minister of Agriculture.] Phyllis was granted a willing release on medical grounds.
Phyllis Unsworth (on left) on motorbike with unknown land girl Phyllis Unsworth with land girl gang (Phyllis on the left) in the back of a truck.

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