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I enlisted in the WRNS in September 1941 and was posted to Queen Anne's Mansions, part of the Admiralty, after training in Mill Hill. I was billeted in Hampstead and remember my journeys to and from work entailed stepping over sleeping bodies in the Underground where people slept taking refuge from the bombing ! When the air raid sirens sounded I always volunteerd for roof top fire watch duty since I feared being buried in the building should there be a hit.
Butlins Holiday camp in Skegness was taken over by the Royal Navy as a reception centre for new recruits and was named HMS Royal Arthur. I was posted there to open a new department for the WRNS and was interested to learn that there were 300 WRNS to 3000 Royal Navy personnel! My memories of the catering were the aptly described 'rats under canvass' being meat pie!
My brother, Eric, was lost at Arnhem in 1944.

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