Loyal Women: S.O.E. Women Agents and Front-line Nurses in World War 2 - A Commemoration in Poetry, Prose and Pictures
Eric Ratcliffe
Four Quarters Press (2000)
In Collection
#3525
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Poet
Woman
Paperback 9780953511341
Great Britain 
Product Details
Nationality British
Pub Place Stevenage
Cover Price $3.00
No. of Pages 44
First Edition Yes
Rare Yes
Personal Details
Read It Yes
Links Amazon
User Defined
Conflict WW2
Notes
Not in Reilly.

Only 3 copies in Worldcat.

"Proceeds of sale of this book, through booksellers or subscriptions will be donated by the publisher to the Memorial to Women of World War Two Fund... There is no National Memorial to the over 640,000 women who served in the armed forces in the war as well as nurses, ARP wardens, ambulance drivers, munitions workers, those in the Land Army-- the list is colossal, and we owe a great debt to them... This booklet commemorates a few, including those who served in the cloak and dagger world behind enemy lines, and the nurses..." -- pp. ii-iii

Contents: Odette Hallowes, GC, MBE; Sister Margot Turner, DBE; Front-Line Nurses; Nurse, Teddington Memorial Hospital; Baroness Ryder of Warsaw; Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, MBE, Croix Guerre with Gold Star; Pearl Witherington, MBE (Military); Sister Vivien Bullwinkel; Remembrance at the R.A.F. Memorial, Runnymede.

"I was born 8.8.18 at Teddington. My father set up a dental practice at Twickenham Green just after WW1, having served with the Royal Sussex Regt. Iwas called up for the 1st Militia in 1939, eventually serving in India with the Ordnance Corps as an ammunition examiner after a Blitz period in England assisting in a team as L/cpl to dig up and detonate unexploded ack ack shells. My postings in India included the North-West Frontier. I was discharged as Warrant Officer. Married 1947, divorced 1960, one daughter Sheila who died in her thirties. I became a Companion of the Druid Order (swordbearer) and founded and edited Ore poetry magazine from 1955-95. I set up poetry groups in Whitton (to which schoolgirl Penelope Shuttle, widow of the late Peter Redgrove, came), Barnet and Stevenage." -- from author's website