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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Laurie Piper from Sidley UK Online Centre and has been added to the website on behalf of Margaret Williams with her permission.

We were living under canvass for 2 months over the D-day period. We had all the interpreters on the camp, the idea being that when the first wave went over they brought people back to us to be interrogated so that we had an idea of where the enemy were.

One night a bomb landed right in the middle of the camp. Two girls in my tent were killed and I was blown out of bed. It landed on the photograph of the fianc茅e of the girl on the bed next door to me. Her name was Corporal Macmillan.

Billeted in the same tent were also the Honourable Jean Davison (daughter of Viscounts Davison) and Lady Diana Reed.

When the Danger Imminent signal came we all landed in the same trench together. One night an aircraft came over with flames coming out of the back, we all cheered thinking that it was a German plane that had been shot down but in fact it was the first Doodle Bug that I ever saw.

After that I received my commission at the Imperial Services College at Windsor and we had our passing out service in the choir stalls at St Georges Chapel in the Castle, we were the first people allowed to sit in the choir stalls who were not associated with the castle or the Royal Family.

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