Interview with Joyce Exton Wallace. Two

Interview with Joyce Exton Wallace. Two

Joyce Exton Wallace recalls a misunderstanding whist giving orders to inspect the barrage balloon bed wires which was misinterpreted as an order to inspect the wires of the 16 beds in the Nissen hut.

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Start again. It was a lovely hot summer’s day and I gave the crew all their orders for their jobs to do and what to get on with and the cooks what to cook and then I went back into my office and got on with my work. The paperwork and everything. About two hours, I had told this one girl, going back on my story a bit I told this one girl to go and inspect the [bed] wires and she came about two hours later. As I came out of my office she came by and I said, ‘Where have you been?’ She said, ‘Inspecting the bed wires.’ I said, 'Well, it didn’t take two hours to inspect the balloon bed wires.’ And she, balloon bed, there were sixteen beds in that Nissen hut, those Nissen huts. I messed that last bit up.