Her older sisters, Violet and Lily, both secretaries, volunteered immediately for the WRNS. Iris, the next in age, escaped from a bank to join the Women’s Land Army, while Primrose, who had just finished her schooling, went off to drive ambulances for the FANYs. It took Daisy a year to persuade her parents to let her leave school. By then the Battle of Britain was being fought and the country on the brink of invasion by the Germans. Then the Blitz began. She was still too young to join any of the services and so she spent the waiting time learning shorthand and typing. As soon as she had passed her diploma, she presented herself at a recruiting office for the Women’s Auxiliary Royal Air Force and three months later she received a letter instructing her to report for initial training. Morecambe in October was cold and wet, the billet uncomfortable and the food revolting, but she enjoyed the rest of it – the marching around, the PT, the lectures, even wearing the uniform, and she made friends easily with the other girls.
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