Description
Object description
Ts account (3pp written in 1989) of her service in the WAAF 1941 - 1945, covering her clerical work at Alvis and then Armstrong Siddely Motors (1941), her enlistment in the WAAF (Autumn 1941), training at Morecambe, Lancashire (October - November 1941), secretarial and clerical duties at No. 1 Balloon Centre, Kidbrooke, and at Ruislip, Middlesex, transfer to AMWR, Whitehall and to the Air Ministry plotting aircraft movements, charting air raids and her demobilization, Wythall, Birmingham in August 1945. The account also mentions her homelife and the Blitz in Coventry, the V-bomb raids on London, the different nationalities and camaraderie in the camps, recreation and entertainment. Also with the collection is an ms expanded version of this account (10pp, written in 1996), including comments on her wedding and the assistance given to her during the preparations by WAAF colleagues (1944), post-war reunions, and VE and VJ Day celebrations, and photographs of her wedding.
Content description
Ts account (3pp written in 1989) of her service in the WAAF 1941 - 1945, covering her clerical work at Alvis and then Armstrong Siddely Motors (1941), her enlistment in the WAAF (Autumn 1941), training at Morecambe, Lancashire (October - November 1941), secretarial and clerical duties at No. 1 Balloon Centre, Kidbrooke, and at Ruislip, Middlesex, transfer to AMWR, Whitehall and to the Air Ministry plotting aircraft movements, charting air raids and her demobilization, Wythall, Birmingham in August 1945. The account also mentions her homelife and the Blitz in Coventry, the V-bomb raids on London, the different nationalities and camaraderie in the camps, recreation and entertainment. Also with the collection is an ms expanded version of this account (10pp, written in 1996), including comments on her wedding and the assistance given to her during the preparations by WAAF colleagues (1944), post-war reunions, and VE and VJ Day celebrations, and photographs of her wedding.
History note
Cataloguer FJP
History note
Catalogue date 1989-04