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In 1939 worked in shoe factory in Sevenoaks Kent.
Signed up for the WAAF. Called up in 1940.
Spent a night in teh crypt in St MArtins in the Field, before being sent up to Harrogate. Aged 19. bombers flying overhead.
Went to Harrogate the following day, to Gran Hotel Harrogate for the WAAFs.
Basic training over the Yorkshire Moors, in the snow.
Posted to Derbyshire. Worked in the stores as an equipment assistant.
Posted to Northern Ireland.Very rough sea trip over to Northern Ireland on the boat train.
There to get the station ready for the American forces who were due over.
Allowed into Londonderry but only with an armed escort.
Allowed home on leave every few months. Once when due back got delayed in the Irish sea due to submarine attacks by the Germans.

Came back to Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
Became a corporal. Billeted out into a big house out in the country. Used to do guard duty, found that someone would be getting into the house at night. Heard a noise one night when they were sitting there. They heard someone and got someone to hit them on the head but it wqas a WAAF officer.
Joined 90 squadron at Ratting Common, there I met and married an electrician airman, in 1944.
Everyone clubbed together and donated the ingredients to make my wedding cake. We got married in uniform.
Found it very sad that airman who had been killed all their uniforms used to be returned and cleaned. When young men asked for new suits in which to get married there werent any so they were reissued with dead airmans suits.
Always knew when when there was an air raid on because young men came to the stores to get a missing piece of kit.
I enjoyed trying to get them the best they could have. I used to try and keep good stuff back for the lads to have if they were getting married. There used to be a Jewish tailor on the camp and I used to send young men over to him to get suits altered for their wedding.
Used to have to climb up on big storage tanks and 'dip' them, to measure how much fuel was left and order replacement fuel when supplies were low.
I then went to Ely in Cambridgeshire.
Demobbed in August 1945. Had a good report when demobbed.

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