- Contributed byÌý
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:Ìý
- Tresina Gell
- Location of story:Ìý
- New Haven
- Article ID:Ìý
- A5494304
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 02 September 2005
I was 16 years old when the war broke out. I had been away at boarding school and decided to join the WRENS. I was stationed at New Haven most of the time.
I was a plotter plotting ships in the Channel.
I did enjoy it and felt I was doing something. A convalescent home was commandeered for people to stay but I stayed in a flat.
During time off we'd go to Eastbourne and Brighton.
We went to dances.
I was there nearly all through war time.
I worked shifts — day and night.
The night shifts were 12 hours long and you had to be back on shift the next day at 4 O' clock.
I worked in the tunnel.
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