- Contributed by听
- jenny-wren
- People in story:听
- Phyl Coulter
- Location of story:听
- Rosyth
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A5524490
- Contributed on:听
- 04 September 2005
That's me - front row second from left - with my lieutenant Writer and all my brilliant wrens and the able seaman. We were a happy and hard working crew - what a long time ago that was!
I joined the Wrens early in 1939 before war was declared and was posted to HMS Cochrane at Rosyth as a Writer. I worked with the East Coast Convoys under Captain Kerr who later took command of the ill-fated Hood.
Our task was to provide escort to merchant ships from Rosyth to Sheerness. Among our destroyers was HMS Wallace, the first lieutenant being Prince Phillip who came on board Cochrane regularly to report on the convoy they had escorted. We first saw enemy aircraft over the Forth Bridge, it was thought that a raid was imminent, so we had to go ashore and disperse in the nearby naval cemetery.
After promotion I served in numerous 'ships'. This photo was taken at HMS Fieldfare, a fleet air arm station in the north of Scotland. VE day was declared whilst I was there and I was demobbed from that station. The picture is of the secretariat at the airfield.
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