Description
Object description
Ms exercise book (135pp) containing entries for the period 3 September 1939 - May 1941 concerned primarily with war news but with a few useful references to the outbreak of the war, her employment at Ealing Auxiliary Fire Service station, civilian conditions and evacuation, together with a ts account (12pp) in which she recalls her training and service in the Women's Auxiliary Fire Service and National Fire Service prior to and during the Second World War and relates the experiences of some of her fire service colleagues, and papers relating to her service including duplicated ts student's notes on various aspects of the NFS; also miscellaneous correspondence comprising 4 ms letters (in English with one incomplete) from a French sailor (dated October 1940 - April 1941) serving in the Free French Sloop(?) SAVORGRANDE BRAZZA off the coats of French West Africa with interesting references to clashes with Vichy forces off Dakar and Libreville including the sinking of the Vichy Sloop BOURGAINVILLE and 7 ms/ts letters from two Dutchmen (dated June 1945 - February 1946 and an ms postcard, October 1939) containing a few references to civilian conditions in post-war Netherlands.
Content description
Ms exercise book (135pp) containing entries for the period 3 September 1939 - May 1941 concerned primarily with war news but with a few useful references to the outbreak of the war, her employment at Ealing Auxiliary Fire Service station, civilian conditions and evacuation, together with a ts account (12pp) in which she recalls her training and service in the Women's Auxiliary Fire Service and National Fire Service prior to and during the Second World War and relates the experiences of some of her fire service colleagues, and papers relating to her service including duplicated ts student's notes on various aspects of the NFS; also miscellaneous correspondence comprising 4 ms letters (in English with one incomplete) from a French sailor (dated October 1940 - April 1941) serving in the Free French Sloop(?) SAVORGRANDE BRAZZA off the coats of French West Africa with interesting references to clashes with Vichy forces off Dakar and Libreville including the sinking of the Vichy Sloop BOURGAINVILLE and 7 ms/ts letters from two Dutchmen (dated June 1945 - February 1946 and an ms postcard, October 1939) containing a few references to civilian conditions in post-war Netherlands.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1985-08