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Object description
Ts account with ms amendments (156pp), written in autumn 1945, covering her service, in the rank of Second Officer WRNS, as the Assistant Staff Officer Landing Ships and Craft, initially on the naval staff of COSSAC but from October 1943 on the staff of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force (ANCXF), at Norfolk House in London (August 1943 - April 1944), at Southwick Park and then Hut 113 in Fort Southwick in Portsmouth (April - September 1944), at Granville in Normandy (September 1944) and finally at St Germain-en-Laye near Paris (September 1944 - January 1945), with useful descriptions of the complex and time-consuming staff planning behind the deployment of over 4,000 landing craft in Operation Overlord, supporting the build-up of Allied forces in North West Europe after June 1944 and organising the assault on Walcheren on 1 November 1944 and of her involvement in vital liaison work at conferences and elsewhere with the American staff, the Build Up Control Organisation (BUCO) and SHAEF, and with many interesting comments about her fulfilment, as a WRNS officer, of an executive role in an overwhelmingly male staff and the reactions of her male colleagues, the operational tensions at the time of D-Day and the storms in the English Channel later in June 1944, the excellent atmosphere among Admiral Ramsay's staff and their burgeoning social life at St Germain-en-Laye, the friendliness of both French service personnel and civilians, Paris following its liberation, Churchill's reception in Paris on Armistice Day 1944, her high regard for Admiral Ramsay and Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Morgan and the distress at the death of Admiral Ramsay and some of his staff in an air crash in January 1945; together with a flimsy, an official testimonial and a 'curriculum vitae' (1p each) concerning her WRNS service, cyclostyled copies of newspaper articles about BUCO (June 1944), documents and a printed order of service relating to the death of Admiral Ramsay (January 1945), a cyclostyled mock appreciation for Operation 'Overboard' written by the planning staff at ANCXF HQ (May 1944), copies of humorous articles published in 'Punch' about the WRNS at the Headquarters (1945), a folder of humorous minutes concerning a possible Christmas 1944 pantomime, and other projected theatrical productions and diversions at ANXCF HQ at St Germain-en-Laye, a collection of official and privately taken group and other photographs and a signed photograph of Admiral Ramsay.
Content description
Ts account with ms amendments (156pp), written in autumn 1945, covering her service, in the rank of Second Officer WRNS, as the Assistant Staff Officer Landing Ships and Craft, initially on the naval staff of COSSAC but from October 1943 on the staff of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force (ANCXF), at Norfolk House in London (August 1943 - April 1944), at Southwick Park and then Hut 113 in Fort Southwick in Portsmouth (April - September 1944), at Granville in Normandy (September 1944) and finally at St Germain-en-Laye near Paris (September 1944 - January 1945), with useful descriptions of the complex and time-consuming staff planning behind the deployment of over 4,000 landing craft in Operation Overlord, supporting the build-up of Allied forces in North West Europe after June 1944 and organising the assault on Walcheren on 1 November 1944 and of her involvement in vital liaison work at conferences and elsewhere with the American staff, the Build Up Control Organisation (BUCO) and SHAEF, and with many interesting comments about her fulfilment, as a WRNS officer, of an executive role in an overwhelmingly male staff and the reactions of her male colleagues, the operational tensions at the time of D-Day and the storms in the English Channel later in June 1944, the excellent atmosphere among Admiral Ramsay's staff and their burgeoning social life at St Germain-en-Laye, the friendliness of both French service personnel and civilians, Paris following its liberation, Churchill's reception in Paris on Armistice Day 1944, her high regard for Admiral Ramsay and Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Morgan and the distress at the death of Admiral Ramsay and some of his staff in an air crash in January 1945; together with a flimsy, an official testimonial and a 'curriculum vitae' (1p each) concerning her WRNS service, cyclostyled copies of newspaper articles about BUCO (June 1944), documents and a printed order of service relating to the death of Admiral Ramsay (January 1945), a cyclostyled mock appreciation for Operation 'Overboard' written by the planning staff at ANCXF HQ (May 1944), copies of humorous articles published in 'Punch' about the WRNS at the Headquarters (1945), a folder of humorous minutes concerning a possible Christmas 1944 pantomime, and other projected theatrical productions and diversions at ANXCF HQ at St Germain-en-Laye, a collection of official and privately taken group and other photographs and a signed photograph of Admiral Ramsay.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2005-06