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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Freda "Betty" Wallis

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Name Wallis, Freda "Betty"
Date of birth 18 November 1926
Place of birth 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, Cople and Sharnbrook hostels.
Married name Flegg
Further information One of three sisters who joined the WLA - Elsie and Helen (the eldest and joined first). All worked in market gardening. Joined aged 18 from Shortstown, Bedfordshire.  Formerly in domestic service.

Three girls picking runner beans

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 Land Girls on the Embankment - Katleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell

Cople House hostel land girls on the Bedford river embankment
(l-r)Kathleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell

Stageshow

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 ______?, ?, Olwyn Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff]
Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

 

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