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Cooking in the WAAFs

When I had to go in Scotland where I lived in Fife, in Kirkaldy, I went for a Medical and was asked...

Top Secret - The Filter Room

"Must be under twenty-one years of age, with quick reactions, good atfigures - and female". These...

My Time at Farnborough

Eric's mother came to the wedding in Conway and brought a lovely white wedding cake with her which a...

Eileen Parsons Remembers Part 1...Posted

It is my opinion that Elsie was happier in the WAAF than she had ever been, at least she had all her...

My Life in the London and WAAF - Elsie Read

When the pilot fired the gun the camera would go off at the same time and if the target was hit it...

鈥淭here Is No Place Like Home, Is There Dear?鈥�

During World War Two my uncle and aunt, Ronald and Marie Ritson, started writing to each other as...

My years at Bletchley Park 鈥� Station X

On Duty in the WAAF in Stradishall

After six months my Officer, Mr Hill, asked me if I would like to do the catering and I went to Melksham...

Working in Occupied Germany in 1945 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Amongst other places that were visited during my stay in Germany were Dusseldorf, Bad Harzburg in the Harz...

The Bombing of Kenley Aerodrome 1940

I started to help with the cleaning up when, suddenly I realised that if the Luftwaffe had bombed us they...

Romance:WAAF Barrage Balloon Site

One night at 2am I was woken up and told to go on guard duty because a WAAF had gone off sick,...

One Woman's War - The Beginning

Southern Ireland had refused to support the blackout regulations imposed in Britain and a minor panic was...

A W.A.A.F. in Buckeburg, Germany 1945 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

Mary's story, together with the war story of her husband, Harry Blood, was transcribed onto a floppy...

Wings As Eagles

The German air crews aimed their bombs at shipyards, but many times the bombs fell short and landed on...

Grace Stocks' Wartime Life (Part 4)

Ground crew and other staff awaiting demob were flown in Lancasters from our base in Upwood, Cambridgeshire...

Life in the WAAF 1942-1946

1940-1942 Britain As soon as I joined the WAAF I started work in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, at the 18...

My Experiences of World War 2 by LACW Sonie Renowden (Jeffery from 1944)

Not long after that the Barrage balloon became redundant and I remustered to Electrician, which brought me...

First WAAF Experiences

Once at Linton I was immediately issued with a complete WAAF uniform 鈥� black lace-up shoes, grey...

My Life as a W.A.A.F. Part One - Balloons

After a month at Innsworth I was sent to number 11 Balloon Centre at Pucklechurch, 10 miles north of...

The Day My Numbers Came Up

I had a very happy life; my elder brother was in the Army stationed at Woolwich and my younger brother was...

Doris Terry's Story

Les was stationed in Whitehall and was living with my mum and dad in Cornwall Street where Pimlico Modern...

Jean Hassall-Wartime memories

My Grandma Mallinson was knocked down and killed on Bradford Road in Huddersfield by a "Queen Mary"...

Joining the W.A.A.F. and Training at West Drayton 1940 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

Joining the W.A.A.F. and Training at West Drayton 1940 by Mary Blood. Mary's story, together with the...

Demobilisation and return to the U.K. by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

There were only six of us in the W.A.A.F. who were home for demobilisation, the rest being A.T.S. girls, so...

Aeronautical Inspection Directorate

As Brooklands was a repair aerodrome for Wellington bombers, the aircraft were dismantled, then repaired...

The W.A.A.F. Driver and the Pre-Select Gears

I, Elizabeth Ann Cook, was born in 1920, in a little village called Paulers Pury, which is in...