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MARY'S MEMOIRS - A WAAF IN WARTIME

During my time at Shrewsbury, all leave was cancelled for RAF and WAAF personnel that summer. We reported...

Mary's Memoirs - A WAAF in Wartime

Eventually, they sorted us out and posted us to RAF West Raynham near Fakenham in Norfolk to be attached to...

WAAF

I would like you to imagine a young country girl 20 years of age standing on the platform of her local...

Mary Churchill - WAAF

Balloon Command/Bomber Command

I was privileged to work as a Balloon Operator one of the toughest jobs in the Royal Air Force - so my...

A WAAFs wartime memories Part One - Bomber Command then commissioned to Code & Cypher Training College and onto Coastal Command

A WAAFs wartime memories Part One - Bomber Command then commissioned to Code & Cypher Training College...

Joining the WAAF

Having heard my aunt talk about joining the WACS in the First World War I was quite anxious to join up but...

Agnes Dimes' Story - With the WAAF at Innsworth Gloucester

I was walking down a busy street in Gloucester one day when a WAAF officer screamed across the road at me...

My experiences during WW2

I volunteered and was gthen posted toHQBC, but was attached to the US Eighth Bomber Command at High...

Diary Notes of a Telephonist

I did try for remustering for trades but there were no vacancies, instead I opted to be a telephonist,...

Life as a Morse Slip Reader.

I'd been working as a shorthand typist in an insurance brokers office for about a year when I decided...

Notes from my Diary

I did try for remustering for trades but there were no vacancies, insted I opted to be a telephoinest,...

A Girl in the WAAF

Again the RAF officers despatched orders according to enemy activity which we were relaying on the map; how...

Two Morse codes for special wireless operator

We were trained as special wireless operators, we were intercepting the messages that the European war were...

My WAAF Life - Dorothy Gale

A very tall burly RAF Sergeant came in bawling 鈥淕ale 753 into the 鈥榮pud鈥� room鈥�. My...

Eileen Parsons Remebers - 1940

Arrived at Reception Point, Reading, where I joined nine other girls. Interviewed by a WAAF Officer, one by...

Reminiscences of a WAAF

At Milfield I was a cook in the Officers Mess. At Swanton Morley our billets were heated and about 30 girls...

Assistant Section Officer Shelia Lockett (nee Wear) BEM - Marital Merger

Assistant Section Officer Shelia Lockett BEM - Marital Merger. I worked as an Assistant Section Officer at...

Daphne Ley's Experiences in the WAAF/WRAF, 1942 - 1952

I was on duty in the admin office at Moreton in Marsh, this was prior to going on an admin training course...

"JOLLY GOOD WORK, RATCLIFFE" (My War as a RAF Listener at Chicksands Priory)

I was then sent to RAF Chicksands, part of the "BEDFORD TRIANGLE" which included Woburn Abbey and...

My Mum the Aeroplane Repairer

Nancy and her friend Marion Robertson soon went to live in digs in Edinburgh, because it was easier to...

Balloon Command

If the balloon was bedded down each member of the crew would be allocated to work on either the port or...

Training for the WAAF in Gloucestershire in 1941

One day I heard there was going to be a talk in Hexham about the WAAF. I knew little about the RAF,...

Training for the WAAF at Innsworth, Gloucestershire in 1941

From Pulverbatch to Wick

Vera and I had thought we would be able to stay together but we were parted immediately as her surname...

Wartime food during WAAF training in Gloucestershire in 1941

There was nothing as civilised as toast, but I can't help laughing at my memory of delving my short arm...