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During the course of my duties I met a young soldier in the REME. He was hoping to re-muster to the Royal Ordnance Corp and to get a commission as an Inspecting Ordnance Officer. This did eventually come to pass but not as quickly as he would have liked but he did finally pass the tests, interviews and examinations and worked at the War Office in London. During this time we were married in 1942.

My posting to the WAAF Police in London coincided more or less with his posting to the War Office in London. As there were no 鈥榩ersonal living quarters鈥� at the War Office he 鈥渓ived out鈥� and I was allowed to join him. We answered an advertisement for a small flatlet on the North side of Hyde Park and our landlady was a charming and courteous lady.

After living there for a few weeks we became of some very odd incidents such as the young women residing there seemed to change rooms from time to time. They seemed to change boyfriends too. Even the landlady seemed to have a different husband to the first one we were introduced to. It transpired that an Army Officer and a WAAF in the Provost Corps made a very good 鈥榝ront鈥� should the police start making enquiries and we got out as soon as it dawned on us that we were living in a brothel! Impossible we thought but it was so! Fortunately we quickly found alternative accommodation.

As could be expected, I became pregnant and for me there were no more patrols, searches, underground and railway station duties, just light duties on administration although often something laughable happened so it wasn鈥檛 as boring as it sounds.

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