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This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by Claudia Knight
After reading the article in the Daily post titled ‘The woman who defied Hitler’, I have decided to write and tell you about my late mother, Margaret Griffiths. Who in my opinion was a very brave woman and deserves to be recognised for her efforts during the war.
In the 1930’s she was a songster in the Liverpool Congress Hall Salvation army. When the war started, she went to work for the Salvation Army Red Shield where she drove a mobile canteen. She told us how she would walk in front of the van with a lantern so that she could guide the Remmes France; a bomb blew up the canteen. Fortunately she had taken cover in a nearby field with her friends Mary Climpson and Brigadier Herbert Climpson. Later on 20th Mat 1940, Mary was killed by an enemy plane whilst in Remmes. My mother was besides Mary when she was shot. After Mary’s death, my mother travelled with some army soldiers to Dunkirk where she witnessed so much death and destruction. She was later evacuated to Dover. My mother finished her duty as a Salvationist with the red shield at Harpenton South Wales in 1944. She later married and moved back to Liverpool.

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