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In the WRNS with Laura Ashley

While we waited, we Wrens had various jobs to do, and Laura and I were 'Messengers', taking these...

Ginger Thomas's D-Day: Working for Cossac

At the time, General Morgan was working on the plans for the D-Day invasion, so my work was extremely...

What the WRNS did in North Shields

I was a supply officer in the WRNS my WRNS officer was very strict but she was good... Our WRNS officer was...

One Wren's War

Most of the civilians had been evacuated, but we had a large number of Service Personnel, Wrens, Waaf and...

A Bird’s Eye View of the Yalta Conference by A Wren

I was one of Churchill's cypher officers at the Yalta Conference. Three of us were to go to Yalta as...

Life as a Wren

As a qualified naval driver I was sent to Scotland to ferry Naval officers around in Largs, and...

D-Day Experience: A Wren at Portsmouth

Extra hours In the spring of 1944, increased numbers of personnel appeared - not only Wrens and naval...

Olive Joins the WRENs

So on Saturday 16th August 1941 I left home to travel by train from Sheffield to Dundee up in Scotland,...

Teenage Years in the Wrens

From there I went to Crail in Fifeshire, Scotland where I was a driver and drove the officers around, even...

Pauline Rice -evacuee to W.R.N.S

My remembrance of that time is fire watching with my wee stirrup pump on the roof of the wrenery and...

The Listeners: WRNS Listening Posts

Special Duties Y Section, WRN I was in the WRNS from December 1942 to April 1946, as part of the Special...

The Listeners: WRNS Listening Posts

The Orkney Isles - Late WW2

The Orkney Isles — late WW2 Muriel Bacon, ex WREN. I have been nudged to recall my time in the WRNS...

Overlord

Householders dragged their piano outside for a great singsong and soldiers threw down their coppers for the...

The Admiral's Safe: The Responsibility of Issuing D-Day Orders

At the time of the Normandy invasion I was drafted to the Chatham dockyard and worked in the Confidential...

World War II: My Memories of School and the WRNS

In 1944 in early May, Norman arrived at Lee, he was the Operations Officer for three squadrons of aircraft...

Wartime Experiences

Help soon came in the shape of 50,000 files, the German Naval Archives, discovered by the advancing Army in...

Recollections of a War-time Wren (part 1 of 3)

Soon after being evacuated to Penzance, from the Isle of Wight, we had a dose of what Hitler was about; one...

Tuppence a Day Danger Money

We also wrote messages on the balloons to Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and any other poor German who saw them....

Recollections of a War-time Wren (part 2 of 3)

The Petty Officer in charge of the W/T office had plenty of remarks to make about “Wrens being no...

A Wren's WW2 Experiences..... As Narrated at Schools in Sydney by Doreen Orr

Hitler then turned his attention further afield and started the bombing of all the large cities in England...

Kathleen Cartwright -My Experience of Life in the Wrens

After one spell of duty, however, I was called to the Duty Officer and informed that I was to return to...

Escape and Wounding in Wartime

So I found myself setting up Lancing College for all these naval officers with the help of a 19 year old...

So Many Memories

After my days work was over sometimes I would enjoy a visit to the cinema, and then on Saturday I would go...

MY WAR IN THE WRNS (Training & First Postings)

Plotting & Ops Officer - A4146004 HMS Eaglet, Liverpoool; HMS Phrosopine, Orkney; HMS Heron I.O.W. over...

MY WAR IN THE WRNS (Officer Training & Postings)

Part 2 Plotting & Ops Officer HMS Eaglet Liverpool; HMS Phrosopine Orkney; HMS Heron I.O.W over D Day...