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- West Sussex Library Service
- People in story:听
- Margaret Gable (known as Clark)
- Location of story:听
- Yorkshire
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A4243349
- Contributed on:听
- 22 June 2005
I was in the ATS and posted all over the place starting at Farnborough, then Yorkshire and Scotland.
They were putting up telegraph poles in the street in Yorkshirewhere our requisitioned houses were (as there was no room for us in the barracks). We were so cold we took a telegraph pole and shared it out amongst us all so we could burn it to have hot water to wash in and fires to keep warm!
My sister managed to join up with me later, as she was in a reserved occupation (a tailoress). She joined me in the battery at Hornsea - she was a Height Finder, and I was on radar. My sister altered her uniform to fit her; every one was very impressed so they asked her to alter other uniforms. So she altered the entire 200 of the battery (they said she could be paid at her civilian pay rate). It took her 3 months!
I met my husband in the war - the battery had adopted a minesweeper, and Bert was standing in for a signalman on board who was sick. They came up to play football at the Tuttly Well Army Camp outside Edinburgh, with the men in our battery.
I am also still in contact with Margaret Miles who I met in the ATS.
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