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This story was submitted to the People's War Site by Linda Scurr (as told to Joscelyn Turner) and has been added to the website on behalf of Doris Love with her permission and she fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

During the war, Doris was based in the Midlands with the Royal Artillery, ATS, working on a gun sight. Her job was to find the height of planes as they flew over the base and pass this information on to the people manning the guns so they could shot the enemy planes down. Later, between 1944 and 1945, Doris was sent to work in a military hospital on a surgical ward. She looked after some very unfortunate soldiers--some were blinded, some had limbs missing and others were suffering from shell-shock.
She said that she still had very vivid memories of her time working there. At the end of the war, "the soldiers in the unit were told that their reward for fighting (bearing in mind that some were to be disabled for the rest of their lives) was to have the unit lights left on until 10:00."
Joscelyn says that Doris was tearful when recounting these memories and that she admired Doris's bravery and respected her for the work she did while fighting for her country.

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