- Contributed by听
- derbycsv
- People in story:听
- Stanley and Jane Marion Newton. Jane's father Frank. Her brothers, Stanley, Lesley and Dan and her sisters, Mary and Violet.
- Location of story:听
- Wilmslow and Yorkshire.
- Background to story:听
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:听
- A5080358
- Contributed on:听
- 15 August 2005
At seventeen and a half, I was an A.T.S. member. In 1943 I was in the Ordnance Core and used to put the bomb throws and compasses into the tanks. I was billeted in Wilmslow, and met my husband in the Depot. I married in 1945, just before the war finished. I enjoyed my work at the time as I was an innocent young teenager.
My eldest brother, Stanley, worked in the office of a tank factory. My eldest sister, Mary, worked as a nurse. Violet was in the R.A.F in Scotland. Lesley was in the R.A.F also, and went to Burma. Dan was in the marines, and went all over the place. My father, Frank, was in the Home Guard. Obviously we were a very busy family, and all worked hard towards the war effort. I was able to keep in touch with my sisters during the war, the rest of my siblings were away so it was difficult to keep contact. Fortunately we all came home.
I didn鈥檛 have any bad experiences. I remember war being announced. Just as I was walking home one morning, the sirens started to sound. I was fourteen.
At the end of the war in Europe the A.T.S were on parade. As we were filing past the soldiers, my husband mouthed the letters F.F.O. This meant fit for overseas. He went off for six months-we had only been married for ten weeks.
Still, he came home in the end and we were married for fifty six years, until he passed away.
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