- Contributed by听
- MyraHopley
- People in story:听
- Myra (Hopley) Charlton
- Location of story:听
- Chester, Harrogate,Melksham,Liverpool
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A3176039
- Contributed on:听
- 25 October 2004
Speke Airport That's me. Second Row, second from the left
My name is Myra Charlton nee Hopley no 430554
On March 1941, I joined the WRAF in Chester.From Chester I was sent along with a few other girls to Harrogate to a college which had been taken over by the RAF. There, we were kitted out with our uniforms, sent to our billet where we spent the next 6 weeks becoming a WRAF.(P.E and square bashing.)
Then we were posted to our different places. I was sent to Melksham in Wiltshire to learn to be a cook.Six weeks in the cook house feeding all the personnel there.
In Melksham my one bit of fame was when we had to form a guard of honour for the Late Queen Mary who was opening something new on the station.
After that, I was posted to Liverpool. When we reported to the office, they immediately sent us home on a weekend pass. On that very night when we arrived home incendiary bombs started to drop. They were looking for Crewe. When I returned to the camp on Sunday via Lime Street station I found that Liverpool had been bombed. I could not find my way back to the camp!I then had to report to the M.P on the station who took me to the place where I should be. It was awfully dangerous with all the bombing going on.I was very frightened.
At long last I was sent to my proper billet which was Speke Airport. We were billeted in the Rectory in Woolton. From Woolton we had to travel by bus each day to cook for the sergeants in the Airport. We used to be able to look out on to the runway to watch the planes coming and going.
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