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The Common Room / Re: Found Anyone Famous
« on: Sunday 12 September 21 10:38 BST (UK) »
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World War Two / Re: WW2 uniform, please tell me what this lady did?
« on: Wednesday 28 April 21 09:44 BST (UK) »
Hi, Glad you liked the photos. I have one more but sadly the large file size means I can't post it on this platform. It is a group photograph of about sixty of the girls in uniform and looking very smart. It must have been taken at the end of the war as on the reverse are many "good wishes" messages to my mother and talk of "getting back to civvy street". The end of the war, and a job well done. I think you'll agree. Ron.
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World War Two / Re: WW2 uniform, please tell me what this lady did?
« on: Tuesday 27 April 21 11:17 BST (UK) »
Hi Dulciebun, The girls efforts were very much appreciated, mum took this photo during a visit by Queen Mary.
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World War Two / Re: WW2 uniform, please tell me what this lady did?
« on: Tuesday 27 April 21 10:43 BST (UK) »
Hi Dulciebun, This is Hatfield House (now owned by The National Trust). The ATS girls lived in a shed at the bottom of the garden. You might like to Google, ATS Remembered- History of Searchlight Operations. Ron.
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World War Two / Re: WW2 uniform, please tell me what this lady did?
« on: Tuesday 27 April 21 10:32 BST (UK) »
Hi Dulciebun, Here are a few more photos my mother took of her mates at Hatfield House.
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World War Two / Re: WW2 uniform, please tell me what this lady did?
« on: Tuesday 27 April 21 10:16 BST (UK) »
Morning Dulciebun, For many of the girls including my mother this was their first time away from home, in the few photographs I have they always seem to be smiling so Service life couldn't have been that bad. Here is a photo I found online. Uniforms were a bit mix and match at the time but I think the colour is near enough.
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World War Two / Re: WW2 uniform, please tell me what this lady did?
« on: Monday 26 April 21 23:43 BST (UK) »
Hi Dulciebun, My mother was born and brought up in a small Herefordshire village where her mother was Postmistress and her father was the village Baker. When the war broke out, eager to "do her bit" she went to work at the local munitions factory at Rotherwas in Hereford. The work was unpleasant and dangerous, so when the opportunity arose she enlisted in the ATS thinking it would be a lot safer and much more glamorous, it was neither. She spent the rest of the war living in a wooden hut heated by a pot bellied stove, spending her day's working in the stores and her nights shining a very bright light into the sky over London, making herself and her friends a target for every German aircraft that happened to be flying by on it's way to bomb the capital. She loved every minute of it and wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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World War Two / Re: WW2 uniform, please tell me what this lady did?
« on: Monday 26 April 21 12:16 BST (UK) »
To give you a better idea of ATS uniforms here is a photograph of my late mother taken at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. She served with the 93rd Searchlight Regiment and is seated front right. To signify the unit they were attached to, the units cap badge was worn above the left tunic pocket. Although difficult to make out I believe two of the girls are with the Royal Artillery, one is Catering Corps and my mother RASC (Royal Army Service Corp). Ron.
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Herefordshire / Re: Hereford Industrial School 1911
« on: Wednesday 17 February 21 15:51 GMT (UK) »
Re the Ancestry hint. The following marriage took place at Hereford Register Office on 01/12/1877.
Benjamin Green to Nancy Hopson. Register 15, Entry 85. Source; Herefordshire Family History Society Marriage Index. Hope this doesn't muddy the waters. Ron.
Benjamin Green to Nancy Hopson. Register 15, Entry 85. Source; Herefordshire Family History Society Marriage Index. Hope this doesn't muddy the waters. Ron.
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