Description
Object description
Printed card issued to her as a member of a voluntary fire-fighting party by the London Borough of Battersea ca. 1940, her Soldier's Service and Pay Book (AB 64) used during her service in the ATS 1942 - 1946, a photograph of her in uniform, an offer of compensation (July 1944) for war damage to her goods recognised under the Private Chattels Scheme, her Certificate of Relegation to the Unemployed List (AF X202/D), release balance account (Pay Form R16) and ATS and VAD Release Book (AB X802) relating to her demobilization in February 1946, an ms letter (6pp, May 1941) from her cousin serving in the RAF undergoing training at RAF Yatesbury at Calne, Wiltshire describing the damage recently suffered by his family to their home during the blitz on Belfast, his disappointment at being relegated to wireless operator from pilot and relations between his group of longer serving men and recently arrived conscripts and a group of Canadian sergeants, a ts carbon copy of a letter (October 1946) from the Air Ministry (Casualty Branch) giving details which had only recently come to light of her cousin's death over Neerheylissem in Belgium in November 1941 and subsequent burial in a nearby churchyard, a Metropolitan Police Property Found certificate (December 1947) and her National Registration Identity Card (August 1951)
Content description
Printed card issued to her as a member of a voluntary fire-fighting party by the London Borough of Battersea ca. 1940, her Soldier's Service and Pay Book (AB 64) used during her service in the ATS 1942 - 1946, a photograph of her in uniform, an offer of compensation (July 1944) for war damage to her goods recognised under the Private Chattels Scheme, her Certificate of Relegation to the Unemployed List (AF X202/D), release balance account (Pay Form R16) and ATS and VAD Release Book (AB X802) relating to her demobilization in February 1946, an ms letter (6pp, May 1941) from her cousin serving in the RAF undergoing training at RAF Yatesbury at Calne, Wiltshire describing the damage recently suffered by his family to their home during the blitz on Belfast, his disappointment at being relegated to wireless operator from pilot and relations between his group of longer serving men and recently arrived conscripts and a group of Canadian sergeants, a ts carbon copy of a letter (October 1946) from the Air Ministry (Casualty Branch) giving details which had only recently come to light of her cousin's death over Neerheylissem in Belgium in November 1941 and subsequent burial in a nearby churchyard, a Metropolitan Police Property Found certificate (December 1947) and her National Registration Identity Card (August 1951)
History note
Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1991-08-16