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ARMY LIFE BY CONNIE CORSIR

I was twenty when I joined the Army as a member of the Royal Army Ordinance Corps. I served for four years as a secretary in the men's office operating the switchboard, typing, answering the telephone and general secretarial duties as required. I had to take my share of night duties when I had the job of completing the logbooks.

I remember that the men used to give me soap coupons as a bribe, if I told them what was written on their medical forms.

During my four years I was stationed at Tadcaster, Chilwell and Catterick. At Tadcaster I was lucky to be billeted at John Smiths Brewery where there were plenty of free drinks.

At Chilwell Barracks we were rather crowded with 26 bunk beds in one room. There were compensations however, I used to go on the river with a female friend and two soldiers, but I am not telling what happened in the boat!

Catterick was more comfortable because we had the luxury of single beds.

My family were committed to the war effort. I had one brother in the Navy and another in the Air Force.

After the war I married a soldier, Stephen. He had joined up at the age of nineteen and had been sent abroad immediately. He spent the war years serving abroad and we were only married after he was demobbed.

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