During the war Margaret, who will be 100 in March 2006, joined the WRAF. At first she was put into administration but did not like it and asked to be put in something more active. They put her as the ...

Previously secret files reveal that recruits in the Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) who showed signs of same-sex attraction were put under covert surveillance by the military police officers. Documents ...

I volunteered for the WRAF at 17 and went to Wilmslow Cheshire for my training. I was then known as Leading Air Woman Critchley. I was then posted to Melcham Wiltshire. I was a cinema projectionist!