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Wartime Experiences in the ATS

Life was never dull in the office when Sgt Davies was around. We were shown round and saw our sleeping...

Woman Driver

The next thing I knew was being told to report to the A.T.S. Officer, as I was being put on a charge...

Barbara 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...

A Happy Time in the ATS

Later, when we were posted to Datchet, I slept in the bunk beneath hers and she would confide in me when...

Wartime Experiences of a Girl in her Twenties [B.Devereux : Part 1]

After doing a directed job in a munitions factory, where I was unable to cope with nightwork, I was sent to...

Why Y Signals -- I found out!

Came the day in May 1945, we had been on the midnight to 7am shift, and the sets had been very quiet,...

Molly's War Effort -part 3

You will find volunteer Brown already in the cottage she was set down earlier said Stevie, as Molly...

The Dam Buster Pilots

Ann Tallis: I became interested because there was a plaque in Sherbourne Church commemorating one of the...

MEMORIES OF THE ATS

There were also three battalions of raw African conscripts who had only received the least basic training...

From Domestic to Intelligence Service

I was born and brought up in Breslau, which was then a German city about 300 km. south east of Berlin, but...

Wartime Experiences of a Girl in her Twenties [B.Devereux : Part 2]

Very soon I was working in an army records office Pioneer and Intelligence Unit, situated in Dunholme Manor...

Barbera Barnes War memories. Part Two.

Later on I became a sergeant and had S and T squads at Camberley with possibly twenty girls in each. At one...

Ada Green -"In the Ack Ack"

I came out of that battery and went to another one and I were at Leeds and then when they were disbanding...

Molly's war effort part 5

Mrs Griff made her way downstairs, Molly and Mary closed their bedroom door... I know lets wear the jumpers...

My Time in the ATS

On the 15th of January, my brother Victors friend, Peter Savill and my mother travelled with me to Euston...

Molly's War Effort -part 4

The volunteers were lined up to receive their various duties Mary, Stevie and the two sisters were directed...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Eight - 1945 A Wartime Wedding

Les and I bade each other a long and lingering farewell in the late afternoon and he and Ernie returned to...

My War Memories

My eldest brother of the two was a navigator, bomb aimer and my younger brother was a pilot, they both flew...

My War Memories

My eldest brother of the two was a navigator, bomb aimer and my younger brother was a pilot, they both flew...

Uxbridge SHAEF and London Bushey

This was just a short walk from Oxford Street, and the SHAEF Supreme headquarters were situated in...

A Few Memories of Army Life in the ATS. (1942 -1946)

Single - living at home in Ambergate with my parents and two sisters and since leaving school, working in...

Taking on a Man's Job

On becoming an officer I joined the 356 MT Coy RASC in BORDON, Hampshire as a Platoon Officer. A spell...

Memories of Serving with the A.T.S. during 1940.

Remember feeling great indignation when a female colleague, much older than I, was promoted to Lance...

World War 2 & Then Me - My Mum & Dad

15/11/1919 FATHER:- ARTHUR WALTER DICKENS FATHER'S OCCUPATION:- Coal Miner, ex- Army. I now have his...

Some Memories of World War 11

I met, with other girls at Queens Road in Brighton where we took the 'King's Shilling' and...

My experiences in the food office and the Heavy ACK ACK

I was almost 22years old 'the day war broke out' I was working for Jackson Stops and Staffin Curzon...