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Working Sisters: In the Medical Services and the ATS

My younger sister Pauline volunteered for nursing duites in the war. My elder sister joined the ATS and was...

A Small world

When I was in the A.T.S. during l947 I was stationed in Welbeck Abbey. In Welbeck Abbey there is a lovely...

ATS: My Mother's Story

Trained for operational duties for 488 HAA Royal Artillery at Tile Hill and Stoneleigh near Coventry......

Big Dog

I was 17 when I joined up, and I was stationed in York's Fulford Barracks. I was on telephone duty one...

Busy Bee Joyce

Joyce would finish at the Fire Station at 6am, rush back home where father would have a cup of tea waiting...

Memories of the ATS: Not all Good Times.

While the invasion barges were being built in Portsmouth Bay we shot a German aircraft down in flames from...

513 Search Light Battery

I was a plotter of aircraft attached to the 513 Search Light Battery. I was with the Search Light Battery,...

Induction in to Army life

It was a story my late mother used to tell about her first encounter with a sentry at the barracks she had...

Memories of the ATS: Shrapnel in the Afternoon.

I was walking along and could hear a noise like "shhh, shhh". I thought "What the hell is...

Drunk & Disorderly

I was not a drinker but had been allowed the occasional glass of cider, so when VJ night came along I went...

My Friend Wore Her Hat Even in the Bath

JESSIE ROEBURY lived in Johnston Renfewshire where the blitz came very suddenly and unexpectedly. Once on...

15 mile walk for love

John and Joan Powneyhave just celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary... Joan and John caught an early...

Going off to join the A.T.S.

I remember the day I joined up, a group of girls, all about my ageand all leaving home for the first time,...

'Saved by a Soldier' as told by Violet Lilian Middleton nee Simons

I did my searchlight training at Kimnel Park, North Wales... I was on searchlight site at Kingsmoor Green,...

The Royal Observer Corps: The eyes and ears of the RAF

When I first left school, I worked for th Minister of Supply as a shorthand typist, sometimes, I did...

Memories of a Mixed ATS Battery

I was with 558 Battery, 161 regiment, and we were the first mixed battery of ATS. I do remember that the...

Air-borne

During the war, I was stationed in the Midlands, living on an ROAC Depot... We did not know where they were...

The Girl in the ATS!

After intensive clerical training at Walthamstow, SW England I joined the 44th ACK Brigade as a clerk....

With the ATS in Italy

I worked my way up Italy, visiting places like Florence....

Looking Back: My Time in the ATS

As told by Mrs Catherine Butler. I was stationed in Southend....

My D-Day Memories: A Coy, No 2 War Office Signals

I was a member of A coy no 2 War Office Signals.The men of our unit were already taking part in the...

Happy Days vol#1

I was Private May Wallace Serving in Regiment 142 Heavy ack ack Battery. Are Sergent Betty Patterson From...

Olive's Story

I was in the ATS, stationed at Penarth. I worked on the ackack batteries in the territorial unit....

No regrets: 66th Search Light Regt

At 19 years of age in the summer of 1939 I volunteered and joined the Territorial Army at Gloucester. I was...

A Burner for the Sunderland Shipyard During the War

My name is Alice Finley and I worked in Doxford's shipyards in Sunderland....

Memories of the ATS - Dancing with the Free French

Whenever I was not on duty on Hayling Island my passion was dancing. We would dance regularly with sailors...