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Press cutting: ATS members leave for Camp Training. Two photographs from a press cutting taken from the 'Daily Sketch' of 17 Jul 1939. The top photograph shows members of No. 19 General Duties Company leaving Waterloo for training at Cowshott Camp in Brookwood. The second photograph shows the Auxiliary Territorial Service ladies sorting out their luggage before getting on the train. From a collection of documents relating to the military career of Capt Muriel Drusilla Riddy, known as 'Penny', who joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1938 and served throughout World War Two. Muriel 'Penny' Riddy became a Captain after the war when serving with the Women's Royal Army Corps, and became an Army Recruiting Officer in the 1960s. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945).

World War Two (1939-1945)