Memories of a WREN (Women’s Royal Naval Service. WRNS)
Author: Gareth Owen
An oral history interview with Margaret Seeley. Interview Date 17/08/13
Margaret Seeley was a Wren in the signals office in Southampton during D-Day. She remembers the landing craft all leaving and Southampton Water becoming eerily quiet. She and another Wren were drafted to sail alongside the vessels to cheer the, mainly American, soldiers on their way during a pause when the weather was too bad for them to set sail immediately.
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Interviewed by: Sue Jackson
Transcription by: Liz Rolfs
Checked by: John Martin
Audio Editor: Cosmic Carrot
Date: 1944