This blog is designed to support a history project I am starting to mark two things – the 80th anniversary of the Second World War, and the life during the war of my Aunt, Pamela Dell, who kept a diary full of short, but I hope, interesting entries about her life and work on the… Read more

Diary Entry: Went to Wembley in 15 cwt. Went to Guildford to be demobbed & home. [This is the last diary entry during the War and Aunt Pamela’s military service.]  Diary notes: KPD’s last day in the A.T.S. – nearly four months after the end of the war her military service was over.  Peace would… Read more

Diary Entry: Went up to Baker St. to give in kit etc. Supper Cosgroves. Diary notes: The last time KPD mentions spending an evening with the Cosgroves. Handing in her kit must have been a significant moment.