Diary Entry: Topping up T.A.B. & T.T. On duty Flora over for tea. Diary notes: T.A.B. was a ‘loaded march’ and T.T. was a ‘Technical Test’. ‘Flora’ is Flora Gardner, a friend from a family living near Berkhamsted, where KPD had lived years before.
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Diary Date: 28th May [1943]
Diary Entry: Took Dorothy Slinger & Claudia Milsom to theatre. Diary notes: Presumably two more A.T.S. colleagues.
Diary Date: 27th May [1943]
Diary Entry: Went to tea with Mrs Morgan. Saw “In which we serve”. Diary note: ‘In Which We Serve’ is one of the best known British WW2 films, written and directed by Noel Coward (and also David Lean), starring Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles and Celia Johnson. KPD had also seen it the previous January. …
Diary Date: 26th May [1943]
Diary Entry: Sgt. Sehmer left for overseas. Diary notes: Possibly one of the (male) officers training the A.T.S.
Diary Date: 24th May [1943]
Diary Entry: Veronica’s 21st Birthday. Diary notes: Veronica Dell (1922-2015) was KPD’s younger (& only) sister, and my mother. Veronica Dell with her father and Anthony Dell, one of her brothers (c. 1927) Veronica Falconer (née Dell) on right, with KPD (holding Veronica’s son) and their Mother, c.1958.
Diary Date: 23rd May [1943]
Diary Entry: Returned Gresford. Diary notes: Gresford, near Wrexham, was the site of the military base KPD was serving at, at Horsley Hall (requisitioned during the War). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsley_Hall,_Gresford#Post-1939
Diary Date: 22nd May [1943]
Diary Entry: Board, & left with Joy 12 noon. Home about 2pm Supper Lewis’. Diary notes: Home for KPD was still her Mother’s home, 35 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, Kent.The Lewis’ were a family KPD worked for as a nanny, who became friends in Crofton, near Farnborough, living at Orchard Cottage. Apparently KPD got to drive …
Diary Date: 21st May [1943]
Diary Entry: Practical tests. Interview President. Diary notes: See the post of 19th May for details about the W.O.S.B. KPD seems to have gone though all the stages of the W.O.S.B. But didn’t, as far as I can see, end up being selected as an officer.
Diary Date: 20th May [1943]
Diary Entry: Went to W.O.S.B. Sunneyfields West Heath Rd. Hampstead. Course 25. Diary notes: See yesterday’s post for details about the W.O.S.B.
Diary Date: 19th May [1943]
Diary Entry: Went up for W.O.S.B. [‘War Office Selection Board’] Tea Dabbs. Supper D. Webb. Night at Transit Camp, Gower St. Diary notes: The War Office Selection Boards were designed to select potential officers for the British Army. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Office_Selection_Boards KPD had friends called ‘Webb’, one of whom was ‘Dorothy’; she also had a colleague …
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