I was in a reserved occupation working for Post Office communications on the engineering side. I started as an 'apprentice' in April 1940 then as a maintenance engineer at Waterloo telephone exchange in central London. In October 1943 I moved to Baldock radio station in response to a call for volunteers to serve at Post Office radio stations.
Then in May 1944 I moved back to central London in response to another call for volunteers. This time I moved to 'Radio Telephony Terminal', where (in peacetime) telephone calls to distant countries by radio link had their outgoing and incoming speech separated. The former went to transmitters at Rugby radio station and the latter came from radio receivers at Baldock radio station. In wartime almost all the radio telephone traffic was to the USA but many other activities involving radio communication took place.
My girl-friend, Margaret, joined the ATS so we had an unusual 'role reversal' situation. We became engaged in February 1944 and Married in March 1945. I have written a story about a incident just before D-Day which is titled 'Beating the Ban' It is listed separately.
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