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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