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The ATS in Wartime Northampton

Unfortunately for us the people of Northampton did not take to girls in uniform, and often showed...

The ATS in Wartime Northampton - part 2

Unfortunately for us the people of Northampton did not take to girls in uniform, and often showed...

In the Land Army and ATS

With the declaration of war came the 'blackout', and the 'blackout curtains'. All the...

Joan Quibell's Diary Part Five - May to December 1942

More huts had for some time been under construction at Hercies Road — not Nissens like ours but...

My War: At Chelmsford General Hospital and in the ATS

I had to work with stores for several weeks, then I was given my own car - a number nicknamed...

My time in the ATS before I was posted abroad.

Edna came to see me off also Arthur's mother and Elsie. Arthur's mother and my aunt were having a...

Tie a Khaki Ribbon: Life in the ATS

I was orphaned the first year of the war and not long out of Convent High School, I left the tiny Cheshire...

I was One of Churchill's Geese

My brother, a qualified surveyor, joined the Royal Engineers and I eventually went into the A.T.S.. This...

Horstead Hall and Low Grade Cipher

We learned to make simple ciphers that could be used for messages between brigades and battalions. They...

My ATS Service: Guildford, Church Crookham and Caserta, Italy

Off to Church Crookham After my training was completed, I was posted to Church Crookham near Aldershot and...

A Soldier-----What Me? An extract from my book" "The Wearing o' the KHAKI"

Our sergeant became hoarse, her face took on the most dangerous hue- " Up two three", Down two...

Life of an ATS girl on anti-aircraft duty

My friend May and I travelled to Preston to sign up in the forces and received 禅he...

A Driving Force

I chose to be Driver Trice 110416 - a very proud moment but a bit of a shock after being led to...

London: One A.T.S. Girl's Experiences During the Momentous V1 & V2 Days

In the early summer of 1944, I was one of some ten A.T.S. girls working in the War Office and living in...

For King and Country: Vigilance in the ATS

I'm the reigning table tennis champion of the world. Later she revealed that it had indeed been Richard...

A Private's Story of the ATS, Harrogate

My older brother Denis was a Flying Officer in the RAF and my older sister Dorothy was in the ATS - I...

A Dane In and Out of the ATS

Minna Chatrine Tofte in ATS uniform with her Scots Terrier. My mother, Minna Chatrine Tofte, met my father,...

The ATS in the Desert: Part I

Palestine was a very busy little country then and used as a transit route for the British, Australians, New...

The ATS in the Desert: Part 2

Billie Roberts was my driving instructor on the drivers' training course in Cairo. We all five became...

My Life in the ATS

In Weybourne I had an ATS Sergeant posted to my unit as an Officer's Mess Caterer. Overall I spent...

Bedford During the War

Servicemen and their girlfriends were going into the Corn Exchange, jeeps and cars were drawing up and we...

Wash Churchill's dishes? I don't even do my mother's!

I went to Normandy and the troops pushed on so well that I was then stationed with a tank regiment in...

Age Doesn't Matter: Working with the Signals Corps in Chippenham

I found myself as a Signals Corps trainee and sent to ex-King Farouk's luxury villa in nearby Kingston,...

A Pay Corps Volunteer from St Lucia

While I was in Trinidad at the end of my studies in 1944, I was approached by three female army officers...

Enigma and all that - in the A.T.S. 1940 to 1945

When we were bombed out of the Central Telegraph Office, I was drafted to the War Office and shortly...

Baptism of Fire: ATS Training

Recorded at Surrey History Centre for Gladys Newlyn ex ATS W/184369. We arrived at the gates of Buller...