Tim and Freydis Sharland

Click RAF Local Residents for Freydis Sharland's career in aviation.

Freydis Mary Leaf married Tim Sharland.  They met on a liner when she was going to visit her brother in South Africa.   They farmed for a few years in Northern Rhodesia before coming to Loosley Row to farm at Tylers Field, Little Wardrobes Lane, Loosley Row

She had a break from her flying career while they reared their three children, 2 daughters and a son, resuming it when the youngest was 17.

She was well known locally where she was known by the Christian name of Freda, perhaps more often as 'Rosemary'

She was the founder and first Chairman of the newly established British Women Pilots Association, Officer of Women's Junior Air Corps, Girls Venture Corps and on GVC Panel

1980 Freda retired.   She then bought a microlight and carried on flying into her seventies.

Freydis was born 22nd September 1920. She died 24th May 2014, aged 93.

2014 A long obituary was printed in the World News section of The Guardian newspaper written by Nigel Fountain. It was headed :-

Freydis Sharland obituary. Pioneering female pilot for the wartime Air Transport Auxiliary. click RAF Local Residents for her flying career.