Description
Object description
Entertaining wp account (113pp) of her service with the WAAF (1942 - 1945) covering her training in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and Morecambe (July 1942) and postings as a clerk to Snaith, Yorkshire and Zeals, Wiltshire (1942), to West Malling, Kent (September 1943) and then as a photographic assistant at Benson, Oxfordshire (?June 1944) including comments on her initial impressions of air force life and the problems caused by her illness with asthma, humorous descriptions of her daily routine, the dances she attended, her reaction to the first American servicemen she encountered, the course in photography she undertook at Farnborough, her visits to London and her home in Margate, Kent, and of the girls with whom she was billeted, together with comments on thieving among the WAAF, the launch of the V1s and V2s, VE Day, her discharge on medical grounds (November 1945) and a poem entitled '1940' describing the differences between Kent and Westmorland following her evacuation there.
Content description
Entertaining wp account (113pp) of her service with the WAAF (1942 - 1945) covering her training in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and Morecambe (July 1942) and postings as a clerk to Snaith, Yorkshire and Zeals, Wiltshire (1942), to West Malling, Kent (September 1943) and then as a photographic assistant at Benson, Oxfordshire (?June 1944) including comments on her initial impressions of air force life and the problems caused by her illness with asthma, humorous descriptions of her daily routine, the dances she attended, her reaction to the first American servicemen she encountered, the course in photography she undertook at Farnborough, her visits to London and her home in Margate, Kent, and of the girls with whom she was billeted, together with comments on thieving among the WAAF, the launch of the V1s and V2s, VE Day, her discharge on medical grounds (November 1945) and a poem entitled '1940' describing the differences between Kent and Westmorland following her evacuation there.
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1996-01-31