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Article: Front line on the home front ; When teenager Alice Griffin told her parents she was going to volunteer in the Army during World War II, her mother was horrified and insisted she didn't go.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2008
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When teenager Alice Griffin told her parents she was going to
volunteer in the Army during World War II, her mother was horrified
and insisted she didn't go.
But her father, being a World War I Army veteran, was proud of
his daughter's decision, and the 19-year-old left her Bristol home,
to become a teleprinter operator.
She worked receiving and distributing messages and passing secret
codes through the cipher office.
These memories are just some of those contained in a new book
featuring local people who served in the war.
Echoes from the Front Line: a collection of Local People's WW2
Memories, will be launched today at Chipping Sodbury Town Hall,
alongside an exhibition featuring ...