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Object description
Well written and informative ts memoir (52pp), written in 1998, covering the period 1939 - 1945, describing her wartime experiences with details of her preparations for war, food and clothes rationing, feelings of anti-climax during the Phoney War, fears of a German invasion, social life in London during the Blitz, her wartime work in the photograph libraries of the Ministry of Information (from early 1941) and then the School of Tank Technology (from the end of 1941) which included lecturing on tank recognition to Allied troops prior to D-Day and working on the Provisional German/English Dictionary of Automotive Engineering (HMSO, 1945), fire-watching duties during the incendiary bomb raids in early 1944, VE Day celebrations in London including witnessing Churchill's victory speech, with references throughout to the progress of the war and the ways in which it differed from the First World War. The memoir includes an afterword (13pp), covering the period 1945 - 1949, which gives details of her separation from her husband who had been in the services during wartime, and the difficulties facing women looking for employment in the aftermath of the war, continued rationing, joy at the abolition of clothing coupons (in February 1949) and her work for the Enemy Documents Section of the Historical Branch of the Cabinet Office (from December 1949).
Content description
Well written and informative ts memoir (52pp), written in 1998, covering the period 1939 - 1945, describing her wartime experiences with details of her preparations for war, food and clothes rationing, feelings of anti-climax during the Phoney War, fears of a German invasion, social life in London during the Blitz, her wartime work in the photograph libraries of the Ministry of Information (from early 1941) and then the School of Tank Technology (from the end of 1941) which included lecturing on tank recognition to Allied troops prior to D-Day and working on the Provisional German/English Dictionary of Automotive Engineering (HMSO, 1945), fire-watching duties during the incendiary bomb raids in early 1944, VE Day celebrations in London including witnessing Churchill's victory speech, with references throughout to the progress of the war and the ways in which it differed from the First World War. The memoir includes an afterword (13pp), covering the period 1945 - 1949, which gives details of her separation from her husband who had been in the services during wartime, and the difficulties facing women looking for employment in the aftermath of the war, continued rationing, joy at the abolition of clothing coupons (in February 1949) and her work for the Enemy Documents Section of the Historical Branch of the Cabinet Office (from December 1949).
History note
Cataloguer KM
History note
Catalogue date 2004-04-07