- Contributed byÌý
- ritarich
- People in story:Ìý
- rita gould
- Location of story:Ìý
- uk
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A2051001
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 16 November 2003
At 19 years of age in the summer of 1939 I volunteered and joined the Territorial Army at Gloucester.
I was called up on 29 August and reported at Bristol attached to the 66th Search Light Regiment/Gloucestershire Regiment. It was my first time away from home and at first it was an adventure. At the beginning I was a clerk, but rose through the ranks and eventually became a plotting officer on a heavy ack-ack gun site. I was demobbed in 1944 — and older and very much wiser woman. No regrets.
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