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15 October 2014
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A Wireless Operator in Calcutta

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Mrs Diana O'Brien
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Calcutta
Background to story:听
Army
Article ID:听
A4409183
Contributed on:听
09 July 2005

This story was added on behalf of Mrs Diana O'Brien by Joerg Stadler of London CSV Volunteers. The author is aware of the site's terms and conditions.

I joined the WTS (FANY) in May 1944 aged 18. I trained in Henley-on-Thames and Dunbar/Scotland as a wireless operator until December. You had to learn to receive and send 25 words/minute in Morse.
In January 1945 I went to Bombay, on to Poona and by train to Calcutta where I served until the end of the war on 14th August and on until mid-October in order to aid the repatriation of POWs who came back from South-East Asia.
I then came back to Liverpool on the 鈥淢auretania鈥 and on to London to be de-mobed late November.

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