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I met my husband when I was the only WAAF at the station. He invited me to join them (Medics) for a meal. We went out for the first time in July 1944 to the Odeon in Ipswich and we married in December that year.

I was born in Ipswich and lived in Bristol Road. We had a beach hut at The Dip in Felixstowe and before the war we saw searchlight practices on the meadow. We saw the masts being put up at Bawdsey and although it was very hush hush we thought they were for death rays. When war broke out we had to take the beach hut home where it became the garden shed; it was called ‘High Jinks’.

I joined the Land Army in 1942 and I didn’t like it, so I joined up as a WAAF and went to Gloucester for my training. My first posting was to Morcambe and then went to Sidmouth to train as a dental orderly. We lived in an hotel in Sidmouth and had to scrub the steps as part of out duties. One of my first duties as a dental orderly on my posting at RAF Locking was polishing the floor and it had to be polished up and down, not in circles. The worst patients were the pilots.

I was posted to Radwinter in Saffron Waldon one winter and we had to break the ice on the water before we could use it.

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