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- Nora Birkett
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- Civilian Force
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- A3473958
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- 04 January 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by James Barton of the County Heritage Team on behalf of Nora Birkett, the author and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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Having received one years diferement I was called up on my 21st birthday in 1943 – an interesting and different start to life in the ATS! Until the end of the war I was a plotter in Dorset, Essex & Norfolk. I wouldn’t have missed the experience for anything, coming from a very happy, but restrictive,family (not uncommon pre war).
At the end of the war courses were arranged, really to keep us occupied. I was sent to an Army School of Physical Training in Aldershot. About 20 of us were billeted in a school and my first inkling of what was to occour was when we were all issued with men’s cycles to ride the couple of miles to Aldershot each day. I am no cyclist and each day I cycled down the hill, across the main road with my eyes shut!. To get off I needed either a tree or a wall.
The men were not keen on girls in their holy of holies, and like a parade ground, we were not allowed to walk across the area.
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