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During the war Margaret, who will be 100 in March 2006, joined the WRAF. At first she was put into administration but did not like it and asked to be put in something more active. They put her as the ...

BRITISH servicewomen who were suspected of being lesbians were routinely spied on by the police, it has emerged. Previously secret files reveal that recruits in the Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) who ...

As a teenager I was full of energy and curiosity and already writing my own sketches and poems, but I was bored out of my skull with my job as a clerical assistant in the civil service in Bicester and ...

By the time the first WrAF dis- banded in 1920 an impressive 32,000 women had served. Florence looked back fondly on the experience of which she was rightly proud and although she never could have ...