- Contributed byÌý
- actiondesksheffield
- People in story:Ìý
- Winifred Starky
- Location of story:Ìý
- York and France
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4553066
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 26 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Winifred Starky, and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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I was a member of the Girls’ Training Corps in York. We were asked to write to the Armed Forces in France, sending general news and papers and/or comics. We had no names or addresses, apart from British Forces, somewhere in France. We got the odd letter back, with general chat, until September 1944, when I received the following:
The finest soldiers in history,
Have all been corporals, tiny, wee,
There’s Napoleon, Hitler, and there’s me,
Yours sincerely, five foot three.
The girls all started work and eventually lost touch. I am now 79 years old and the only girls I kept in touch with have since died.
Pr-BR
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