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Object description
Wordprocessor memoir (45pp), written in 1991 and illustrated with photographs, describing the immediate historical background to the formation of mixed batteries in Anti-Aircraft Command in 1941 and in particular her voluntary enlistment in the ATS and basic training in Devon (April - June 1942), her service as a radar operator with an AA Training Regiment in Wiltshire (June - August 1942) and her service with 490 HAA (Mixed) Battery RA at Dartford, Kent (August 1942 - spring 1943), Petts Wood in Kent (spring - December 1943), Dundonald in Northern Ireland (December 1943 - July 1944) and, after the Battery had been partly reequipped to operate against V1s, in Kent near Folkestone (July - September 1944) and on the Isle of Sheppey and at Gravesend (September - winter 1944 - 1945) and also recording how, after the Battery was disbanded, she was remustered as a private/clerk in the ATS and served in office appointments in this country until she was demobilised in April 1946. This interesting memoir includes useful references to relations between the sexes in a mixed battery, the social life of the women, her low opinion of ATS officers and civilian conditions in Northern Ireland.
Content description
Wordprocessor memoir (45pp), written in 1991 and illustrated with photographs, describing the immediate historical background to the formation of mixed batteries in Anti-Aircraft Command in 1941 and in particular her voluntary enlistment in the ATS and basic training in Devon (April - June 1942), her service as a radar operator with an AA Training Regiment in Wiltshire (June - August 1942) and her service with 490 HAA (Mixed) Battery RA at Dartford, Kent (August 1942 - spring 1943), Petts Wood in Kent (spring - December 1943), Dundonald in Northern Ireland (December 1943 - July 1944) and, after the Battery had been partly reequipped to operate against V1s, in Kent near Folkestone (July - September 1944) and on the Isle of Sheppey and at Gravesend (September - winter 1944 - 1945) and also recording how, after the Battery was disbanded, she was remustered as a private/clerk in the ATS and served in office appointments in this country until she was demobilised in April 1946. This interesting memoir includes useful references to relations between the sexes in a mixed battery, the social life of the women, her low opinion of ATS officers and civilian conditions in Northern Ireland.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1997-04