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This is a brief record of my mother鈥檚 service in WW2 (her id was W/41153,Royal Corps of Signals, ATS, full sergeant). I have typed up and submitted from the handwritten note that she wrote on 23 August 2005. Her modest account belies the courage and determination so typical of her generation and which she still shows today. She does not hint at what it took for a quiet young woman to cross the ocean in a troop ship to serve away from home. She does not mention what it took to stay calm and brave on the edge of a front line, or to set the best example that she could to the women and others serving around her. I submit this on behalf of my mother with love and admiration:

鈥淚 volunteered for the ATS in 1939 at the age of 23, before the conscription of women. I joined the Royal Corp of Signals, being a sergeant supervisor of Army Telephone Exchanges. I trained at Southern Command and South Eastern Command before volunteering for service overseas. I was stationed in Cairo, later serving on the edge of the desert at a huge new army telephone exchange as a sergeant supervisor. I was in constant touch with the Eighth Army and I often spoke to Montgomery in the course of my duties.

I served in the ATS for seven years until 1946.

I love my country and was proud to serve in time of war.鈥�

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