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At the age of 18, I joined the A.T.S. and in 1941 did convoy driving for 2 years. After being posted to London attached to the War Office after doing convoy driving, I had a young girl with me, teaching her to drive. I used to take ammunition to different parts of the country down south. However, coming back from Folkstone, the engine seized up, as if it was empty. We walked to a camp, our lads were on guard at the gate and we landed in front of an English Major, but after a meal we realised it was an ‘American’s Camp’. We were there for two days and as we were leaving, we were given bananas, apples, cigarettes and sweets. Eventually, we arrived at the tube station at Euston and the sight there was awful. People actually slept there and the children were looking at us and a boy about three said “What’s she got?” and pointed to the bananas, so we gave the fruit to the people to share and the cigs and sweets because neither of us smoked. After a while our train came and the noise of them tube trains coming through the tunnel was awful. How them people slept there I’ll never know!

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