Private Papers of Miss V H M Beck

Ts account (4pp), written in 1944, of a typical working day at the War Office in summer 1944 where she was serving as a secretary in the ATS; together with two files of ms and ts notes and charts on Army regulations and ATS organisation which she made while on a course at the ATS Clerks Training School in Strathpeffer, Scotland, in 1942; and a portrait photograph of her in uniform. Also, ts extracts (4pp) from her 1940 diary, kept while she was living in West Hampstead and working as a typist in Camden Town, reporting items of War news and describing the disruption and damage caused by air raids.

Catalogue date 1983-05

Cataloguer VAF