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Norwood Green Hero

At home, my father, William Rees, a veteran of the Somme, holder of the oak leaf cluster for bravery, also...

Joining the ATS in Omagh in 1939

I was working in the Courthouse in Omagh in the County Surveyor's department in the spring of 1939,...

Memory of an ATS girl.

I had to travel from Victoria railway station in Manchester and I met several other girls like myself...

My Billet was Burnt Down

Phyllis who had been using the electric ring to make cocoa had panicked when an Officer had come around to...

My War: In the Catering Corps

Following this I was posted to Newcastle and then moved on to Nottingham where the Army Pay corps had taken...

A Taste of Life in the Auxiliary Territorial Service

I was given three of every item of clothing, including khaki silk directoire knickers, known as...

Wartime Memories

Shown are Mr. David Parker, Mr. Ralph Parker and Mr. Raymond Parker. Raymond Parker served with the Royal...

Nursing in the NE

From Chilwell, I went Melton Mowbray - who should I meet there but Peggy Brown, a friend from Backworth,...

Memories of a Young ATS

Staffs County Council libraries, on behalf of the author, have submitted this story. I ended up being a...

What no milk!

Once everyone had settled, the Captain called 'Private Angus to the stage'and she made her way up,...

My War Years: In the ATS

After that I had lots of moves. These included Bude, Abe forth, Neath, Peacehaven, Seaford, Ellesmere Post,...

My Wartime Romance in Italy

We girls received the Italian Star Medal – the same as the men who had spent months fighting their...

Memories of World War 2

On 1st September 1939, I was evacuated from Birmingham to Warwick... The planes were always trying to bomb...

Red Alert at Woolwich Arsenal

Then I was called up and I went into munitions at Woolwich Arsenal. Winifred Butler Silver Circle Reading...

Working in London

The MT Office had a big map of the area, and we had to pass 100% map reading,. The vehicle test was...

Memories of an ATS Girl

As I was in a reserved occupation I should not have joined the forces, but 3 weeks before I was due to...

My Wartime Service - Convoy Driver & later MTTC Instructor

I took vehicles to Canadian LSTs, manned by the Royal Navy at Greenock for the Russian convoys. I travelled...

ATS and London life (The women's armed territorial service)

ATS and London life. On VE Day, I was in my ATS uniform, and there was this very tall soldier and he...

Serving with the ATS by "Terry"

Anyway despite all this, I responded to an advert in a local journal asking for volunteers to join the ATS,...

My War Runaway Marriage

I ran away from home and joined the ATS. The uniform of the ATS was khaki drill and one uniform we bleached...

A Pea-Souper of a fog and a miracle for me

I was in the ATS on twenty four hour leave in Hounslow with my mother-in-law and as usual we went to the...

ATS aboard the Georgic bound for Italy.

ATS aboard the Georgic bound for Italy. I was in the A.T.S. and sailed on the Georgic with about 20 girls...

The Experience of Being in the Line of Fire in the ATS.

They were building a new cookhouse for the girls, because they didn't want to be mixing with the men,...

Spam Sandwiches

I was in the army and ate the same meals as the soldiers... Then we put spam, always a piece of spam,...

ATS Dispatch Rider - Manchester, Kent and Merseyside

I was posted to 169 Rgt stationed at Eccles, Manchester, on a dummy gun sight where the guns pointed...

The Free French in Scotland

All the big houses were used as billets for army officers: a group of Free French Army officers were...