Diary Entry: Valerie, Jean, José & I went to Llangollen. Diary notes: This is the first mention of Llangollen, but KPD visited it (& friends there) frequently over the next few years. Valerie [Evans], Jean [Gander] & José [McLelland]were all friends of KPD, and probably also in the A.T.S. KPD visited them, and even went …
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Diary Date: 1st June [1942]
Diary Entry: Started instructing on Guy. Diary notes: There is a WW2 armoured car called a ‘Guy’, but it seems unlikely that KPD instructed on them, since as far as I can discover she never drove one. But maybe she did instruct male soldiers on how to drive one…She certainly told me in later life …
Diary Date: 31st May [1942]
Diary Entry: Went round route Hawarden & Chester. Diary notes: Presumably as part of her work duties, getting to know this area. It is a round trip of about 30 miles.
Diary Date: 30th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Jean, Pollard & I went to Wrexham. Diary notes: Jean [Gander] and ‘Pollard’ were friends of KPD, probably also colleagues in the A.T.S.
Diary Date: 29th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Met Valerie, Jean & José at Paddington & we all went to No. 2 M.T.T.C [Mechanised Transport Corps] Horsley Hall, Gresford. Diary notes: Valerie [Evans], Jean [Gander] & José [McLelland]were all friends of KPD, and probably also in the A.T.S. KPD visited them, and even went on holidays with them (esp. José), over …
Diary Date: 27th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to Tun. Wells for day. Diary notes: Quite likely to be visiting either her Aunt Consie (who was an elder, unmarried sister of her Mother) or the Elaine Dell, her sister-in-law.
Diary Date: 26th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Left Camberley & went home. Diary notes: Home for KPD was still her Mother’s home, 35 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, Kent.
Diary Date: 25th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Mechanics exam. Medical. End of course concert. Diary note: With the ‘end of course’ concert, life must have been a little like life in a boarding school!
Diary Date: 24th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to Hindhead lunch & tea & met Kyte Guildford on way back. Diary notes: Molly Browning, who lived at Hindhead, was a friend KPD met up with regularly over many years, and that is probbaly the reason for KPD’s lunch there. ‘Kyte’ was another of KPD’s numerous friends. She msut have lived …
Diary Date: 20th May [1942]
Diary Entry: Moved sleeping to Buchan Lodge. Diary notes: Part of the A.T.S. camp, perhaps?
Aunt Pamela's War 