Working in the Quartermasters on the docks

If Mom was still alive today she would be getting me to write this for her. Unfortunately we lost her in 1999. During the war she was a member of the Wrens and was stationed in Liverpool, working in the quarter masters stores at liverpool docks servicing the ships and submarines.
She talked quite alot about her time there and we now are the keepers of those memories. She had happy and sad times. Jean spoke fondly of seemingly mundane things like having to walk a mile to the nearest toilets which if at night was in the pitch black. But the one thing that sticks in our memories is her very personal recollection of the loss of young life, when she spoke about handing out new blankets and cloths to lads going out on ships and submarines and then hearing of the loss of a ship/submarine and knowing she would never see them again. And while she may never of known their names their faces stayed with her in her dreams right up untill the day she died. We now share these stories with our son passing it on to a new generation so that these nameless men who made the ultimate sacrifice and layed down their lives for freedom and justice will never be forgotten. To all who lost their lives in the war Thank you for our countries freedom.

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