Memories of life at aircraft battery
IT was with great delight my son showed me on the internet that the gun site on Sinah Lane was now an English Heritage site.
In July 1943, 458 Mixed Heavy Aircraft Battery moved on to that site and I was a predictor number of a section.
I had been a member of the ATS since my birthday in December 1938 - I was 20 years old.
I was in service in London and very lonely as my family lived in Worcestershire. So when the Government asked for volunteers for the then WATS, I joined.
We did training once a month at the Princess House Kensington Regiment at Hammersmith and went to camp at Purbright under canvas.
Three weeks later we were called up. Bombed, machine gunned and bored with cooking army rations, I volunteered for ACK and being the only one I was whisked off to Guildford.
I had unusually long sight and was posted as a spotter, however I was eventually talked out of being a spotter, and became the second alternative predictor.
Gwen Thomas
Truro Drive
Habberley Estate
Kidderminster
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