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This story was submitted to the Peoples War Site by Lynne Gibbs of the County Heritage Team on behalf of Betty Peck and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
The war saved me from trouble. I was only 15 and living with my grandparents. When they died the house had to be sold ,so my friend and I put our names down to help the war effort. We had to lie about our age. We were sent for medical examination to Durham cathedral,and my friend did not pass but I did. I was called to the front and given a shilling which I thought was my bus fare home, but turned out to be "the King's shilling)
I was in the ATS and was sent to Scotland at first. The other girls were all crying and homesick but of course I wasn't.
I had been working as a baker and did not really want to carry on with that during the war but I was sent to the command bakery at Aldershot.The machines never stopped as we made bread to be airlifted out to the troops. We had several experiments and produced a bread that would last for four weeks.
My husband was in the army for 35 years and I travelled all over with him. When I met him he was a corporal and I was a sergeant but he finished his career as staff sergeant.We married two weeks after VJ day and at my wedding there were 42 people in uniform including the bride!

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