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Signed up for the WAAF. Called up in 1940. Spent a night in teh crypt in St MArtins in the Field, before being sent up to Harrogate. Aged 19. bombers flying overhead. Went to Harrogate the ...
Iris Brown, pictured in her WAAF uniform, sent messages in Morse code during WW2 Dozens of mourners have attended the funeral of a woman who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF ...
Ivy joined the WAAF in June 1941 after trying on the uniform ... Ivy did her initial training at Harrogate and was passed out and posted to RAF Holme upon Spalding Moor, South Yorkshire, as ...
Part of a series of International Women’s Day events in Harrogate entitled Women Winning, 'In Conversation with Sheila Pantin' saw this remarkable Yorkshire-born veteran talk about her ...
Put together by Dorothy "Knicky" Chapman - one of the first women trained in military photography during the Second World War - it shows how the training of Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF ...
During the current celebrations to mark the RAF’s Centenary year, M&S stores in Harrogate will be recalling remarkable WWII stories of incredible community spirit in Harrogate.And to celebrate ...