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- AUDREY LIMBERT
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- Home Front
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- Civilian Force
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- A3068075
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- 29 September 2004
I was working at Clokies pottery when war started - obliged to do fire watching duties (persons under 21 only to 10pm.)- men took it in turns to watch by climbing on the oldest bottle kiln, could see to Leeds.
I was having a birthday party in a youth club, March 1941, a warden came to tell us to go home - there was a Red alert warning. Castleford had several incendiary bombs and several fires.
Called to register as a young person at 16 yrs. Registered in the Rangers Guides doing Home Emergency Services.
I started National Service in the Womens Land Army. Trained near Bedford as a
tractor driver, but did a spell on a poultry farm.
Whilst in the training centre we witnessed the commencement of D-Day. At 5am we stood in the gardens and heard and saw hundreds of planes towing gliders pass over. We were deeply moved, we knew that some of the men,both British and American, were those we had met in the Toch H Centre in Redford on weekend leave
I spent 2 years in National Emergency Services (Nursing) at Castleford Maternity Home. Demobbed March 1947
My brother a regular in R.A.F in 1939, was awarded the British Empire Medal for work on RADAR. My brother in Law was in the Tank Corp in North Africa and Italy and my father mas in the A.R.P.
My friends and I as teen-agers knitted socks and helmets for the forces and wrote letters.
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