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British shorthand typist served with Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Queen's Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps in Farnborough, GB and Commandant Royal Engineers Office, General Base Depot, Etaples, France, France, 1917-1919
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REEL 1 Recollections of period as shorthand typist served with Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Queen's Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps in Farnborough, GB and Commandant Royal Engineers Office, General Base Depot, Etaples, France, 1917-1919: background to enlistment, 1917; medical examination in Liverpool; parent's reaction to enlistment; journey to Farnborough; uniform worn; story of being caught outside of barracks by senior female officer in camp in France; lack of drill; U-boat alarm whilst crossing English Channel, autumn 1917; work for Commandant Royal Engineers Office; recreational activities; restrictions on relations with male personnel; story of attending concert at Camiers and receiving lift back from senior officer.
REEL 2 Continues: attitude of male towards female personnel; visits to wounded hospital patients; conditions for French civilians; use of shelters during German air raids; plans for evacuation during German offensive, 1918; Armistice Day in Boulogne, 11/11/1918; demobilisation, 1919; story of treatment by civilian women at Lime Street Station, Liverpool.
