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War Office in Whitehall

I trained as a teleprinter/wireless operator in the Royal Signals and served in various locations...

A.T.S Memories: Baking Bread in Aldershot

I was called to the front and given a shilling which I thought was my bus fare home, but turned out to...

Alien in the ATS Woman's Army

I came to England at 16 to go to boarding school at Wentworth Hall in High Esher, Surrey, 1935....

Wartime Memories of a Northampton ATS Girl

We lived in Tanner Street, near the gasworks, in Northampton. I was stationed at Purbright Camp for two and...

Wartime Memories of a Nortampton ATS girl

We were then posted to Purbright Camp in Surrey, this was the base for the Brigade of Guards, and there...

My Mother: CSM in the ATS

My mother, Eileen Russell nee Brown was a member of the ATS during WW2... Mum was a member of the British...

Fun in the ATS

During the war, I was in the A.T.S. I was stationed with the Heavy Ack Ack Battery 614 on the Isle of...

Guns and Mud: Life in the ATS

However all was revealed and on passing our Trade Test we joined our first battery, then to firing camp on...

My Time in the ATS during WW2 from 1942 to 1946

I was called up in February 1942, and reported to Leicester for training, and then to Helensburgh ACK-ACK...

Manning the Ack-Ack in Plymouth

Although it is 60 years since the three of us were together, Mrs Rose Chesterman, the P.T. Instructor, and...

No Choice - ATS!

Nottingham 1942: Called up at 19 — into the ATS. Learning to drive - from 'bugs small cars'...

Glasgow Woman Finds Love in Naples

I was a member of the ATS/EFI when sent by convoy from Liverpool to Naples, Italy in 1943 to work as part...

Irene Agnew's army life in Calcutta

The army paid for me to take a six month course, and I became a hairdresser in Calcutta, my home city....

War 2 -AA in Kent

We went to firing camp, on a cliff in Northern Walsh, where the RAF, towing a sleeve on the end of hundreds...

ATS Reminiscences.

Overalls, too large, which reached to the flour, Plus the caps on our heads, was all that we wore... This...

A Woman's War

My first three weeks training was in Newcastle, before being accepted for driver training. After my...

Ack Ack

We stood there in the darkness of the night Steel helmets firmly set upon our heads The sky suddenly lit by...

I Was There- ATS in Cornwall

I was a very young ATS staff driver stationed at Truro and I remember very well driving my Officer onto...

Breaking the Rules

My brother in law was in the Navy - my husband was in the Marines - and I was in the ATS......

My War

Until the end of the war I was a plotter in Dorset, Essex & Norfolk. About 20 of us were billeted in...

Going Deolali 1939-41

I was sent to the military hospital at Deolali and became personally acquainted with the place that gave a...

Childhood Recollections

Just after she qualified from Edinburgh she was posted to a battalion of ATS girls in Essex... The girls...

A Londoner's War Story

I lived in London during the war and experienced many months of bombing every night. Bad luck followed them...

Edith Burt Nee (Maude) life in the ATS

Edith Burt life in Ilfracombe in the ATS. My Nan was Edith Maude Burt born buckfastleigh 22/09/1921 she...

An ATS's memories of Overlord

We were the first group of ATS to be sent to Normandy in August 1944... When Brussels was liberated, we...

The Spotty Wedding

In 1944 my mother was in the A.T.S planning to get married in March 1945 when she learned that she was...