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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Elsie Mary Wallis

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Name Wallis, Elsie Mary
Date of birth 9 October 1924
Place of birth 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 and Sharnbrook hostels.
Married name Thomas
Further information Joined, aged 20, from Shortstown, Bedfordshire, at the same time as her sister, Freda. Former fabric worker.  They trained together and were at Potton together.  An other (older) sister, Helen had joined earlier.  After a surgical operation, Elsie worked on easier garden work with Liz Day on hostel gardens.

 



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