The Parachute Training School, Royal Air Force Ringway, Cheshire, 1944. Seven members of the WAAF, each with over two and a half years service at the Parachute Training School. The women have, between them, packed nearly fifty thousand parachutes to date. Left to right: ACW1 Sheina Brown (25) of Covent Grove, Glasgow (formerly a saleswoman); ACW1 Edith Tindle (26) of Shotton Colliery, County Durham (formerly a cinema attendant); ACW1 Olive Snow (23) of Knutsford, Cheshire (formerly a mill worker); Cpl Doris Mothersole (29) of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, (formerly a laundry hand); Sergeant Betty
The Parachute Training School, Royal Air Force Ringway, Cheshire, 1944. Seven members of the WAAF, each with over two and a half years service at the Parachute Training School. The women have, between them, packed nearly fifty thousand parachutes to date. Left to right: ACW1 Sheina Brown (25) of Covent Grove, Glasgow (formerly a saleswoman); ACW1 Edith Tindle (26) of Shotton Colliery, County Durham (formerly a cinema attendant); ACW1 Olive Snow (23) of Knutsford, Cheshire (formerly a mill worker); Cpl Doris Mothersole (29) of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, (formerly a laundry hand); Sergeant Betty Jones (24) of Pontefract, Yorkshire (formerly a housekeeper); LACW Phyllis Baduchowska (21) (the English wife of a Polish paratrooper); and ACW1 Anne Douglas of Liverpool (formerly a tailoress).
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Keywords: 2, conflict, military, war, world, ww2
