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I am from Thurnscoe, I left when I was 14 years old to go into service at Bradford. I stopped there until 1945 when I joined the WRNS.

I did my training in London and my first posting was in Scotland. I was an Officer Steward. After about three months the station closed (it was a Fleet Air arm Station) and I was sent back to London, to Greenwich. Whilst I was there I ended up looking after an officer鈥檚 wife and children. I was really a skivvy. I said I was an Officer Steward not a nanny, so I re-trained at Burfield in Reading as a cook. Then I went to HMS Raleigh and it was there that I met my husband, he was serving on Raleigh. We got married in 1948 and about a year later I was demobbed.

I was in the WRNS four years. I signed up for two years and was paid 拢20 per year. Then I signed up for another two years. I was demobbed in 1949. We stayed in Plymouth until 1954 then came back to Yorkshire.

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