Changing Course: The Wartime Experiences of a Member of the Women's Royal Naval Service, 1939-1945

TitleChanging Course: The Wartime Experiences of a Member of the Women's Royal Naval Service, 1939-1945
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsHouston, Roxane
Number of Pages271
PublisherGrub Street
CityLondon
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In June 1940, following the Dunkirk evacuations, Britain stood alone. After witnessing the demoralised survivors first hand, Roxane Houston was determined to "do her bit." She volunteered to join the WRNS. From a comfortable background with a sheltered upbringing, she now began a remarkable and difficult journey, set against six years of war. Starting in 1940 at the Royal Naval Air Station at St Merryn near Padstow, under seemingly constant attack from the Luftwaffe, preparing for Combined Ops at Largs and Greenock in the run-up to D-Day, thence to Kandy and Colombo, in Ceylon, she did not return home until early 1946. She met many varied characters, making some lifelong friends, experienced much excitement and great danger, happiness and personal tragedy, and received more than one proposal of marriage. Now, in her twilight years, she revisits those momentous days which tested her and her contemporaries to the full.

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