Derek Law Bibliography

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DEACON, Audrey. Diary of a Wren 1940-1945: War Years in the Women's Royal Naval Service. xv, 168p., illus., index. Spennymoor: Memoir Club, 2001. ISBN: 1841040320.

She served throughout the war, mainly at Plymouth most notably over the D-Day period and latterly at Liverpool and Kyle of Lochalsh. This is a moving account of daily life during the war, including her marriage and widowhood when her childhood sweetheart and husband was wounded and later dies after a training accident.

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The Royal Navy; WRNS;

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