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The stories collected here are told by my mother, Katharine Bedford, and two of her sisters, Patricia ('Becoming a lorry driver and despatch rider for the WRENS') and Elizabeth ('Wartime memories of a 15-year-old in Riding Mill, Northumberland', and 'Joining the Girls Training Corps to support the war effort').

Katharine, the eldest of the three, was still at school a few months before war broke out, and so all three were only just old enough to contribute to the war effort. But they each did, in different ways. These are brief glimpses of their experiences, as they have told them to me.

My mother's stories are also partly drawn from her self-published autobiography, `So Far and yet So Near' (2000).