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Joining the North American Bureau: A Sergeant in the ATS

On arrival I found seven other girls - another Sergeant, a Corporal and five Privates from all corners of...

Betty's Little Book

We recognised some of the people in the book - her mother, brothers, sister, brother-in-law; a Canadian who...

My Life in the ATS

I worked in Newton Abbot as a wages clerk at John Vicary and Son, a woollen mill. Our H.Q., and as a...

Molly's Story

Her Ack Ack Battery was eventually stationed in Kent as part of the defence of London, which was then being...

Agnes' story

From there we were sent to Oswestry and formed the 467th Heavy Mixed Ack Ack Battery. After two weeks we...

Aftermath of Dunkirk

The capitulation of France had left the British troops to fight it out alone and entrapped on the beaches...

Driving in the War

We used to get a lot of German planes coming over because of all the bombing in nearby Manchester and...

Wedding traumas

Eventually we decided to get married and arranged a wedding in Warley RC Church for the 18th January. I...

Heroes of the Night, as Told by Lynda Heron

Tea and coffee all round and stories of heroes of the night and how friends were spared to share another...

Betty's Little Book - Page 5

This entry to Betty's Little Book was made by I. Phillips on 18 May 1943. Recipe For A Love Cake....

Life in the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), 1945

Cocktails in the chief's cabin with Bill and David. Do you have a glossary that explains terms such as...

War Memoir: Evacuated to Kent and Wales

During the school holidays, which we were not allowed to spend in London, I was staying with Joan and Duggy...

Early Wartime Thoughts, ATS and Army Post

We all helped each other to cope in the best way we could and when our war with Europe was won in...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Six - 1943

It was here in 鈥淕鈥� typing pool that I met Marjorie McIver, Joan Lindsell, Doris Keane, Queenie...

Life On The Anti-Aircraft Gun-sites WW2

After Oswestry we, that is a full team of 24 G.L. Girls together with the gunners and A.T.S. instrument...

Life and Love in the ATS :Part 1

One night there was no dance band so Margaret's father, my uncle George, deputised. I was pleased to be...

Evacuee to ATS driver

I was 13 years old in 1939, a pupil of Ilford County High School for Girls and living at 26 ARDWELL AVENUE,...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Seven - 1944

When I was cowering in the hut listening to the sickening screaming of the bombs and the barking of the...

ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service(Part 2)

Whilst staying at Burleigh Manor Hotel the meet was held their with the fox hounds and Huntsmen and the...

My War Years: As an ATS Fire Control Operator

Since my husband had been stationed in the Orderly Room at Perth I had applied for a transfer to Scotland...

ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service (Part 1)

From Naples I hitchhiked on the post van to Rome went to see the Vatican, all the paintings by Michael...

Molly's war effort Part 2

With a battered suitcase filled with as many cloths as could be got together Lil and Molly trundled off to...

Joan Quibell鈥檚 Diary 鈥� Part Four - 1942 (January - May)

I found a good friend in Joan Cattell and I loved my spare time wandering around York. Enemy hammers gave...

Molly's War Effort -part 1

Friday night came and with some intrepidation Molly and Lil wended there way along to the hall to find out...

Surveyor and Saxaphone Player in the First Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery

We were stationed in Yorkshire for quite some time, training after Dunkirk; there were various ATS units,...

Wartime Memories of a Norwich Girl

When the air raid was over, my sister and I walked up Old Palace Road and saw where a pub had taken...