Dorothy Hilda Dot Roy Marriott

I just had this awful urge to… I wanted to be in there to help out. And I was in Timmins, Ontario, my mother was there and she was going to go with me. And I couldn’t go with her; I felt I had to do it on my own. So after a week or so, I was down at Toronto visiting a friend. The first thing I ended up was at the recruiting centre and they said, can you come in by - this was a Monday or Tuesday - and they said, can you come in by Saturday? And I said, right on. So I was in right away. I went right to Trenton and got initiated in there, like you know. It was a nice, nice place, and we done all our training and that. And then after that, I forget how long afterwards, I got a posting to Ottawa, [Royal Canadian Air Force]Headquarters. And I was there ever since. Yes, I was a stenographer. I was under… Group Captain [Albert Oliver] Adams was my officer. And we worked with Air Vice Marshall [Alan] Ferrier, that’s the top one of the service. And he was just the next door down from me so I had to go to his place quite often. They had sworn you in as a secret officer and they just gave you that award or that [designation], so that nobody could question you if you were in the wrong place. So I used to have to carry secret documents. I felt relieved to be on my own and it just made you feel that you were somebody, I guess. You had to make your own decisions and it helped quite a bit, because I was a very shy person. So I got along really good.