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This story was submitted to the Peoples War site on behalf of Edith Bruerton and has been added to the site with her permission...

Edith was in the ambulance Service in Derby during the war. In total she was with the service for nine years and during this time she saw a lot of hardship and sadness. Part of her duties was to get the dead and the injured out of the bombed buildings.

She can also remember going into the air raid shelter when a bomb dropped on to a house nearby where she lived and the house almost being demolished.

A more pleasant side of her duties in the Ambulance Service was to ferry children to and from school, she enjoyed this and the children called her Auntie Edie. She also can recall that often the ambulance girls got 'treats'from the shops that they went too.

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