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- Kathleen Watson
- Location of story:听
- Morcombe, Stafford, Bushey Park, Hampton Court, Birkenwood
- Article ID:听
- A5545866
- Contributed on:听
- 06 September 2005
I K. Watson give permission for Valerie Oxford to add my written or transcribed material to the 大象传媒 People鈥檚 War Website.
Wartime Interlude
I joined the WAAF in Huddersfield and trained as a clerk in the Master Provisions Office on Morecombe seafront. The MPO supplied all aircraft parts. I was then posted to Stafford where we slept in 2 Nissan huts. We used to cadge large empty tins to hand on the roof to catch the rainwater which leaked through holes in the roofs of the huts. There were wooden duck boards to walk on as it was always wet in 1942. Next I was posted to Bushey Park, still only doing clerical work.
We were billeted in houses at Hampton Court and I was in a house next-door to Jessie Matthews. She used to sing for us in the local pub. My next posting was to Birkenwood, 8th Army Air Corps. In 1944 I volunteered to go to India with WAAFS from all over the country (Bombay to New Delhi). I met up with an airman I knew in England. We married in September 1945 and we are still together 60 years later.
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