Description
Object description
Detailed ts memoirs (187pp) of her service career in the WAAF/WRAF, 1939 - 1969, covering her enlistment and subsequent employment at RAF Farnborough (1939 - 1940), her attendance on the first WAAF NCO course (June 1940) and later on a course at the WAAF OTS at Bulstrode Park, Buckingham (December 1940); her postings to RAF Wyton, Norfolk, and the Inspectorate of Recruiting (1941), where she interviewed Sarah Churchill; to the WAAF Directorate (1942 - 1943); to RAF Kirkwall, Orkneys (1943) and RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh (1943 - 1944); to No 16 Maintenance Unit at Stafford (Spring - Summer 1944); the Polish Section, Directorate of Allied Air Forces Liaison (1944 - 1945) during which time she was sent to France to recruit Polish DPs; a WAAF OTS at Stratford-upon-Avon to be Chief Instructor (1945); to HQ No 44 Group (1945 - 1946); HQ No 85 and No 2 Groups BAFO Germany (1946 - 1947); HQ Flying Training Command, Shinfield Park, Reading (1947 - 1949), after her demobilisation and re-enlistment (Summer 1947); HQ Far East Air Force, Singapore; WRAF Directorate at the Air Ministry (1951 - 1954); HQ Home Command, Maidenhead (1954 - 1956); Inspectorate General at RAF Uxbridge, Middlesex (1956 - 1958), during which period she visits Kenya to discuss potential posting of the WAAF there; RAF Hawkinge, Folkestone (1958 - 1959); RAF Spitalgate, Grantham (1959 - 1961); serves as Deputy Director of the WRAF (1961 - 1964) and then as Inspector WRAF attached to the Inspectorate General at RAF Uxbridge during which period she visits the Far East (1964 - 1966); then her appointment as Director WRAF (1966 - 1969) including details of her creation as Dame, her attendance at the Investiture of the Prince of Wales and other official visits. She gives useful descriptions of administrative procedure, recruitment and training, and life in the WAAF in general as well as interesting observations on the setting up of a Polish WAAF.
Content description
Detailed ts memoirs (187pp) of her service career in the WAAF/WRAF, 1939 - 1969, covering her enlistment and subsequent employment at RAF Farnborough (1939 - 1940), her attendance on the first WAAF NCO course (June 1940) and later on a course at the WAAF OTS at Bulstrode Park, Buckingham (December 1940); her postings to RAF Wyton, Norfolk, and the Inspectorate of Recruiting (1941), where she interviewed Sarah Churchill; to the WAAF Directorate (1942 - 1943); to RAF Kirkwall, Orkneys (1943) and RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh (1943 - 1944); to No 16 Maintenance Unit at Stafford (Spring - Summer 1944); the Polish Section, Directorate of Allied Air Forces Liaison (1944 - 1945) during which time she was sent to France to recruit Polish DPs; a WAAF OTS at Stratford-upon-Avon to be Chief Instructor (1945); to HQ No 44 Group (1945 - 1946); HQ No 85 and No 2 Groups BAFO Germany (1946 - 1947); HQ Flying Training Command, Shinfield Park, Reading (1947 - 1949), after her demobilisation and re-enlistment (Summer 1947); HQ Far East Air Force, Singapore; WRAF Directorate at the Air Ministry (1951 - 1954); HQ Home Command, Maidenhead (1954 - 1956); Inspectorate General at RAF Uxbridge, Middlesex (1956 - 1958), during which period she visits Kenya to discuss potential posting of the WAAF there; RAF Hawkinge, Folkestone (1958 - 1959); RAF Spitalgate, Grantham (1959 - 1961); serves as Deputy Director of the WRAF (1961 - 1964) and then as Inspector WRAF attached to the Inspectorate General at RAF Uxbridge during which period she visits the Far East (1964 - 1966); then her appointment as Director WRAF (1966 - 1969) including details of her creation as Dame, her attendance at the Investiture of the Prince of Wales and other official visits. She gives useful descriptions of administrative procedure, recruitment and training, and life in the WAAF in general as well as interesting observations on the setting up of a Polish WAAF.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1986-03-07