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World War Two started when I was eleven years old. My father had been sent to fight and my mother was in the WRS Woman’s Service. Here she helped with the refugees from war zones such as: Belgium, France and Holland. When I was thirteen I helped
My mother look after these people by serving them tea, food and medicine. I was also a singer and dancer and I performed shows for the soldiers. I met lots of famous people by doing this.
When I was sixteen I became a newspaper writer. In this job I went round to visit people who had lost somebody in the war. I found this job very hard and distressing because I didn’t want to upset people.
When the American soldiers came to Weymouth, I met my husband. I got engaged when I was just sixteen, and married at eighteen.
Soon after I joined the ARP (Air Raid Patrol). I went around Weymouth with my
Mother and helped people, whose houses had been hit.
In 1940 rationing started. Mother always got extra food tokens from the corporals who had stayed in their house with them.
I found the war as part of my every day life, but now I look back and see that I helped to make history.

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