Description
Object description
Extracts from 'The Lioness' (4pp) containing reminiscences about her experiences in the ATS while serving with 606 Mixed Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery during the Second World War, together with copies of contemporary photographs and of letters relating to the setting up of a battery linking project for ex-personnel who had served with mixed AA batteries in Britain and elsewhere during the Second World War and eleven folders of correspondence (arranged in unit order) received by her (mainly during the 1990s) from ex-members of the ATS and Royal Artillery. Many of the letters contain reminiscenes about service life and the role played by ATS girls on gunsites as well as giving details of the location of individual units and providing an insight into the health problems (particularly deafness) faced by the women in later life and the attempts made by them to secure a disability pension, based on their wartime service and there are useful references also to official recognition for the ATS (particularly for the girls who died in service, each of whom is recorded under her battery number) and the importance of contacts with old comrades for the elderly.
Content description
Extracts from 'The Lioness' (4pp) containing reminiscences about her experiences in the ATS while serving with 606 Mixed Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery during the Second World War, together with copies of contemporary photographs and of letters relating to the setting up of a battery linking project for ex-personnel who had served with mixed AA batteries in Britain and elsewhere during the Second World War and eleven folders of correspondence (arranged in unit order) received by her (mainly during the 1990s) from ex-members of the ATS and Royal Artillery. Many of the letters contain reminiscenes about service life and the role played by ATS girls on gunsites as well as giving details of the location of individual units and providing an insight into the health problems (particularly deafness) faced by the women in later life and the attempts made by them to secure a disability pension, based on their wartime service and there are useful references also to official recognition for the ATS (particularly for the girls who died in service, each of whom is recorded under her battery number) and the importance of contacts with old comrades for the elderly.
History note
Cataloguer KM
History note
Catalogue date 2006-04-28
