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Dulcie Nellie Pearce
Auxiliary Territorial Service
from:Winterhead Farm, Winscombe, Somerset
Dulcie Pearce was my first cousin once removed and was also my Godmother. She was the only child of Reg and Maud Pearce a farmer's daughter living at Winscombe, Somerset until she joined the ATS with a great love of nature and animals. She loved riding and had a horse called Beauty.
Dulcie served as an ambulance driver in the ATS, starting her service at Wickham House, Clevedon, Somerset in I believe 1941. At Wickham was a Dr Thomas Johnson. I have an autograph book of hers with many, many names of women and men serving in the ATS. Dulcie spent a great deal of time at Crossways, Haywards Heath, but was also sent to Honiton, Castle Cary, Chester, Ormskirk and Marston Camp.
A few names that I can read in the book are:-
Corporal Cynthia Spraggett
Mary Flanagan
Elizabeth Whittington (nickname Dicky)
Barbara Burnes
Jocelyn Burnes of CRS Clevedon
J McLeod at Marston Hall
"Dilly" Radford
Dorothy Lister
E Beryl Jones
Bunty Bikett
Bobbie Wilson
Barbara Reed
Joan Sharpe
Lance Corporal Dorothea Leighton, No 2 Company, Heathfield Camp
Molly Wallbridge
Corporal Foley at Honiton
I do know that she had 2 proposals of marriage from a Neville (who came from South Africa) and also a Jimmy from Scotland.
If anyone knows more about Dulcie's time in the ATS or could give me her number so I could obtain her service records I would be grateful.