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My brother’s fiancé who was in the W.A.A.F was based in the same area, and she was working on operations control at the time so she heard their last transmission (it was obviously very traumatic for her).

The upshot of this was that in 1993 I had a letter from the Salvation Army asking me if I knew an ‘Anne Todd’. I replied, ‘Yes, a lady of that name had been in the W.A.A.F and had been my brother’s fiancé. It turned out that she had contacted them during the Armistice parade in London, trying to find out if any members of my family were still alive. She wrote to me three times and I wrote back but then our contact ceased. I don’t know if Anne is still alive, but I’m glad she got in touch for that short time.

She wrote and told me all about her relationship with my brother, and even showed me the last letter she got from him left in UPS to her before he went out the day he got killed.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Ron Gamble and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr Gamble fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Ron's stories:

• 1) My Brother and I
• 2) The Totty Sisters
• 4) Jack’s last letter
• 5) The hazards of bird watching
• 6) It was a strange time really…

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