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This story has been submitted to the People's War website by Pam Riding of Kirklees Libraries on behalf of Mrs Lockwood and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

When I joined up into the Air Force, my dad went into being an old man. For the first three months he was so worried. I had never been away from home before and he went white. However, he got over that and I joined up and went to Innsworth at Gloucester. There we did our square bashing, and from having passed out there, we were posted to Blackpool, to do the wireless course. What a time we had there! We had to go dancing at night, because of the beat of the Morse - to get it out of our heads, which we did, and eventually we went to Compton Bassett. From there I was posted to Acklington in Northumberland and it was a fighter station so we didn't use Morse we used RT instead. The first thing they did when we got there, was to issue us with a bike because we had to cycle round the perimeter to flying control each day to go on duty. We were on a three watch system. We had good times and we had bad times, but on the whole they were the happiest years of my life, because from 18 to 22 should be. 1945 came along and we were all made redundant as signals people and I remustered to be a PTI and I was posted to Padgate where all the recruits were still being brought in. I was the only WAAF PTI amongst a lot of young men who were mostly ex air crew that had also been made redundant and remustered. I got married in 1946 and was demobbed then at Gosford- that's it.

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