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I joined the A.T.S. 6.11.42. I was sent to Pontifract where I did my training. Then I was sent to Speke in Liverpool. We said we was a cleaning up troop. When we got the site clean we were moved to Heyton in Liverpool when we cleaned up that site we were moved to Cheshire, then back to Speke, then we travel by train at night to Tilbury to a gun site at Low Street. We could see all the ships as they left Tilbury docks. They soon trained us up on arc duty on the guns I was on the side when the pointer was on the right mark I had to shout ‘Fire’ the all the guns went off.
When the doodlebugs came they moved us to Foulness Island so we could fire lower range. We slept in tents 3 beds in a Bell tent then when winter came 3 tents were put in a marquee so we were on double canvas.
When the doodlebugs stopped and the Flying bombs came we moved out on Boxing Day to somewhere up north packing up tools. I was demobbed from there.
My husband who I had married in August was on the Atlantic Convoy on a destroyer. He went in the navy at 15 years old he was in the regular navy. I met him when his ship was in Tilbury. When the war ended he changed ship which was one of the first ships into Singapore after the war. I was two months pregnant when he went and our little girl was 1 year 1 month old when he returned. He was still in the Navy a few years after that.

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