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When the war started I was 20 years of age and lived in Featherstone.I had only been out with my boyfriend Reg Gough a couple of times before he was called up for duty in the army,although I had known him vaguely since I was about fourteen when he sometimes helped me on the bus with my violin case as he was a conductor on South Yorkshire buses and was eight years older than me.
While Reg was away in the army Dr Marjorie Stevens,our doctor, suggested I went to train as a nurse.I went to Pontefract to a room above the wool shop in Cornmarket to be measured for my uniform and I was going to train at Barnsley Beckett hospital.
Reg and me wrote to each other and saw each other on his leave trips home.When Reg found out he was going abroad he wrote and proposed.He got three days leave and went to see the Bishop of Wakefield for a special licence and we were married at North Featherstone Parish church 0n 16th February 1942.
After our marriage I helped Reg's mother in the shop.Reg had four sisters but he was the only surviving son of four boys.I was an only daughter with six brothers.Reg's youngest sister,Mildred known as Millie had a husband in the Coldstream Guards named Sam.Sam was injured abroad and brought home to hospital in Wimbledon.He had serious head injuries and Millie was distraught as she had a new baby.I travelled down to Wimbledon with her leaving the baby at home.When we arrived at Wimbledon there were ladies there to meet us(WRVS I think or something similar)they had found somewhere for us to stay.As it turned out it was a very big house which belonged to Ted Ray's brother and it was being used by the army,there were officers billeted there.
Fortunately Sam Survived after an operation and good nursing care and although initially blinded his sight returned.
Despite the war and the blackouts and rationing we were well looked after in the big house and we were given bacon and toast for breakfast.The lady of the house said that all the servants had been called up apart from two young girls who helped her.
Sam had to stay in hospital for two weeks until he was well enough to come home so we went back to visit again and we took some fresh eggs,salmon and butter from Reg,s mother's shop for the hospital patients as these like everything else were in short supply.
These were hard times but people pulled together and what we had we shared.

Reginald Gough--5thMarch 1911 to 10th August 2001
Amy Gough nee Grandidge 20th April 1919 to 11th June 2003

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