Letter: It Is Clear How Much We All Enjoyed Our Time in the WRAC

Published on: 17 Feb, 2018
Updated on: 17 Feb, 2018

Women’s Royal Army Corps Association
standard bearers.

From Joan Young

In response to: Memories Of Queen Elizabeth Barracks And The Women’s Royal Army Corps

It has been lovely to read all the comments on the article about Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Stoughton. What is clear is how much we all enjoyed our time in the WRAC [Women’s Royal Army Corps].

I joined in September 1960. After training at Guildford and clerical training in Yeovil, I was posted to Tripoli, Libya. Whilst there I attended a clerical upgrading course in Cyprus. That cold winter of 1962/63 saw me back in Yeovil on a shorthand course, after which I was posted to Aden as shorthand writer for the GOC MELF [General Officer Commanding Middle East Land Forces].

Whilst there I holidayed in Kenya, visiting Treetops – a wonderful experience. In 1964 I was married to the GOC’s staff car driver. We were married nearly 47 years until his death in 2011.

We had three children and now have three grandsons and five granddaughters.

Like everyone else I had a wonderful time as a member of the WRAC and wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

My name and number? W/408802 Corporal Miller J.

Responses to Letter: It Is Clear How Much We All Enjoyed Our Time in the WRAC

Susan Freeborn (nee Owen) Reply

July 11, 2021 at 6:17 pm

Once a girl in green always a girl in green. My name was Sue Owen, known as Susie, back then. Regimental no. W/441336, November 1971 intake.

I did three years with the Royal Signals. Is anyone brave enough to say they remember me?

I loved every second of all of it. Those were the days, miss it daily.
Pat Mann (nee Quinn) Reply

January 19, 2023 at 2:59 pm

I joined the WRAC in 1971. My number was w/441343 so the same intake as you!

My name was Pat Quinn (now Mann) and I joined Postal & Courier Communications until 1975, three years at Mill Hill [London] and the rest in Dusseldorf, Germany, where I met and then married in 1977.
- Susie Freeborn Reply
  
  April 7, 2023 at 10:53 am
  
  Hi Pat, those were the days eh? I spent a time in UK on a holding posting waiting for vetting to come through before going to Lubecke in Germany where I was demobbed on marriage in 1974.
  
  Had a wonderful time married with two sons and two daughters but still missed being a WRAC what about you?
Lisa Burt Reply

July 6, 2023 at 9:07 pm

I joined in March 1971, my number was 439980 and I was then Lisa Bailey.

I went on to join Royal Signals at Catterick before being posted to Aldershot. I then went to Northern Ireland in ’72. Loved every minute of it.

Alas, I have no photographs, all lost in a move.