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Cpl. Lily Smith

Auxiliary Territorial Service

from:Gateshead, Durham

My Mother, Lily Smith, from Low fell, Gateshead. Enlisted in September 1939 in Gateshead. She was billeted in Ushaw Moor, Durham and was based at Brancepeth Castle I only know she was stationed at Clay Cross, Derbyshire where she met my father Bill Ort. They married in London in 1942

I am trying to get hold of her service records because I have no idea what she actually did in the ATS. She spoke of it as the best years of her life. But never really said what her job was. I have lots of photos. Including some of her friends Olive and Jeannie. I don't know their last names I'm afraid. I'd love to find anyone else who was at Clay Cross and who might be on some of these photos. She passed away in 1991. But I'm sure there is more to tell. If I could find the children of her comrades.



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