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Agnes' story part2

The bus was flying the British flag, but the German Youth Movement ignored our Heil Hitler sign as we...

Wartime Experiences

I worked at the Royal London head office in Finsbury Square and it was said that our spire was in direct...

A Wartime Wedding

The whole village helped with our wedding, giving Mum little bits of their rations... We weren't...

Molly's War Effort part 6

Molly and Marie made their way to the kitchen... Molly had never seen a kitchen like it before but she...

Molly's War Effort -part 8

As the captain entered the kitchen and the V.I.P. stood in the doorway eyeing everything in sight Molly...

My War Years: Evacuated Troops and the ATS

We were lucky but a little village called Tupton on the outskirts of Chesterfield caught the last of the...

A.T.S. RECRUIT

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

Memories of an ATS Girl

W118133 and was sent first to Engineers' Hall, Croppers Hill, St. Helens where there were five girls...

The ATS in Wartime Northamton - part 1

Most of my time was taken up sewing tags on second-rate stock for reduced sale. For Gladys's...

That Other Band of Women

Before WW2 this Close was home to the Cathedral clergy, respected citizens, theological students, and a...

Memories of Larkhill

It would be nice to include the names of some of the girls from Larkhill, in order that a memory is kept...

My Letter In The Ack Ack Reunion Newsletter 2002

I have attended every Ack Ack reunion at York and really enjoyed them but how I wish that just once I could...

Our Day Centre has lots of Memories

A Town Hall in London ANNIE TOOKE kept War Diaries of London when she worked at the Town Hall on Report and...

My War Time Story

Now we were ready for posting and in January 1943, my friend Isobel and I were posted to Blackdown in...

Wartime Memories in a Seaside Town

Back in Brighton and Hove there was barbed wire along the beaches and times were hard for the fishermen as...

Diary from America

She was an officer in the A.T.S during the 2nd World War, and I have found her diary recording her visit to...

Memories of the ATS, Spitfires, and the Blitz

The night before I left Colney to join the ATS there was an air raid in Norwich and most of the roads...

Serving with the ATS in 1942-46 by Joyce Scott (nee Bucklow)

I met my long-time friend Joan on Stockport station in June 1942 and we were posted to Droitwich in...

Contrasts

Where I worked many of the young compositor apprentices were already Auxiliary members of the Edinburgh...

"Rookies" in the ATS pay corp

About 20 ATS pay office clerks; two cooks and two orderlies lived there, three or four to a room, plus the...

In 1941 I joined the ATS

At this camp our battery was completed with the girls who worked the predictors and height finders,...

Evacuee to ATS driver

The front and back doors were blown off and my young brother was blown across the kitchen. Leslie, who was...

Molly's war effort part 7

Therefore, Mrs Griff although surprised and apprehensive understood Molly's explanation and accepted...

Everyone Did their Bit

I joined the ATS in 1940 and I was stationed in Colchester, Essex, which was a garrison town where we had...

My Brief A.T.S. Career

On April 4th 1943 from the small village of Dunbeath, in Caithness, I took the bus into Wick, 21 miles away...

A. Doreen McInnes - WW 2 Wartime Experiences

It was August 1942, when I was ordered to leave home to train for the A.T.S.. Before I left Rock Ferry...