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WRN Lancs. lass Louie last seen 1946 Largs, Ayrshire. Contact Betty Brewer fellow WRN.

“This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Anita Howard from Essex Action Desk CSV on behalf of Betty Gander (nee Brewster) and has been added to the site with her permission. B. Gander fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.”

I was in the WRNS and by the end of the war I was a petty officer. I was mainly stationed in Crail, Fife but during the last 6 months of the war I was moved to Largs, Ayrshire where I was finally demobbed in September 1946.
I became very friendly with a Liverpool girl from Anfield named Louie and the day we left I gave her a present of the Three Brass Monkeys. (See all, hear all, say nothing).
We had great times together and I’d love to meet her again. Our nicknames were Hippo (Louie) and Crit (me).
In Largs we often had “peeping toms” looking through our windows. Once we found a man hiding in one of our wardrobes. We soon chased him away.
Sometimes they would sit halfway up a tree to spy on us.

We didn’t have a lot of money. It cost 6d for a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
We always used to roll our own cigarettes with Rizla papers and tobacco.
On the day were demobbed all we had left was half a tin of tobacco which we gave to the taxi driver because we were so hard up.

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