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Funny Secrets

As told by Esther Berman. There was a vicar's daughter: guess what she did: she had a baby....

An Alarming Incident

My mother joined the ATS just before the outbreak of war -- together with her Scots terrier Ib Fidelius...

Thwarted Ambition

I joined the ATS off my own bat but I had two friends already in the ATS... I went back to the...

ATS Cap Badge

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

D-Day: With the ATS in Northampton

I was in the ATS for four and half years; I went to Dorset, Colchester and Northampton....

Bunny Purnell ATS

Do Any Of You ATS Vet's Remember The Late DoreenPurnell Who Served in The ATS As A Gunner & Ended...

Sylvia Jensen A.T.S 1943

Sylvia Jensen A.T.S 1943...

Barbera Barnes War Memories. Part One.

Anyway, in October I went to Penn House in York, but I was not officially in the army... By then I had...

From Clerk to Captain in the ATS: War Service Memories

Most army units had ATS personnel as part of their War Establishment, but ATS were in a company...

No 1 Plotting Officers School, Park Hall Camp, Oswestry, late 1942-1943

When George walked into the office the battery Sergeant Major was Sergeant Major Irons who had been...

ATS Training Camp Honiton Devon 1942

A letter arrived and enclosed was a railway warrant, I was to report to Honiton, Devon, Railway Station at...

I was an Officers’ Flying Controller on radar!

I volunteered as I had watched the girls marching from the submarine base at Blyth and someone said...

A.T.S Training Camp 1942

England was at war with Germany and so after my nineteenth birthday, I was conscripted into the A.T.S. A...

Mary Melbourne's War

We enlisted at Glen Parva Barracks, Leicester, we were immediately issued with uniform, pint tin mugs and...

Life in the ATS

Life was luxury after Penicuik, sharing a first floor room with five other girls, dining room, ablutions...

Wartime Memories Part II

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

WOYGITES at Beaumanor

I was a class 1 operator which meant I could receive 25 words per minute. We were based at Beaumanor near...

Joining up

At 16 i became a messenger for the A.R.P and did one night a week at the civic centre where messages were...

Joining up

At 16 i became a messenger for the A.R.P and did one night a week at the civic centre where messages were...

Predicting planes in Merseyside and serving under Mary Churchill

When I was in London in 481 battery Winston Churchill's daughter, Mary Churchill, was my junior...

Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India)

In 1942 Lady Monkton started to form the Women's Auxiliary Corps called WAC and with her previous...

The Telegraph Pole

My sister managed to join up with me later, as she was in a reserved occupation. She joined me in the...

Driving and Entertaining and Milking

I was stationed in Derby and used to drive to the docks in Dover. There were cows in the area where we...

The Unpredicted Predictor

On arriving at Arborfield an ATS 1st Lieutenant Officer informed us that we were not to be trained as...

ATS Girls

A Wireless Operator in Calcutta

I trained in Henley-on-Thames and Dunbar/Scotland as a wireless operator until December... In January 1945...