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![Lillian Bowden]({"id":"1c34f204-a72c-42ec-917a-ea8a3e4e2465","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"5501_600","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":39998,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-02T21:51:29.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-02T21:51:29.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #5501","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"The inside cover of Lillian Bowden's pay book showing the post marks for each pay she received.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5501 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/5501_600.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/5501_600.jpg","credit":"Lillian Bowden","pivot":{"mediable_id":"152d7ee0-0f5e-4916-9c78-3aceab72ef38","media_id":"1c34f204-a72c-42ec-917a-ea8a3e4e2465","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":1},"translations":[{"id":"699fcbc4-bd9a-430d-9f00-63b54a49cbcd","media_id":"1c34f204-a72c-42ec-917a-ea8a3e4e2465","title":"Memory Project Image #5501","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"The inside cover of Lillian Bowden's pay book showing the post marks for each pay she received.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5501 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","locale":"en","credit":"Lillian Bowden"},{"id":"62ba8311-3b18-4837-8590-4c816a6d1fcc","media_id":"1c34f204-a72c-42ec-917a-ea8a3e4e2465","title":"Memory Project Image #5501","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"Couverture int\u00e9rieure du livre de paie de Lillian Bowden montrant le tampon pour chaque paie qu'elle a re\u00e7u.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5501 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","locale":"fr","credit":"Lillian Bowden"}]} "Memory Project Image #5501")
Lillian Bowden
The inside cover of Lillian Bowden's pay book showing the post marks for each pay she received.
Lillian Bowden
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Lillian Bowden
Lillian Bowden's National Identity Card.
Lillian Bowden
![Lillian Bowden]({"id":"4c9642b7-4a1f-4b7b-812a-246e6cb6d5fe","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"5499_600","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":29446,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-02T21:51:26.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-02T21:51:26.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #5499","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"Lillian Bowden, 1943.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5499 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/5499_600.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/5499_600.jpg","credit":"Lillian Bowden","pivot":{"mediable_id":"152d7ee0-0f5e-4916-9c78-3aceab72ef38","media_id":"4c9642b7-4a1f-4b7b-812a-246e6cb6d5fe","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":3},"translations":[{"id":"a6ddb3ee-baf6-4889-ba9b-6603c85615c6","media_id":"4c9642b7-4a1f-4b7b-812a-246e6cb6d5fe","title":"Memory Project Image #5499","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"Lillian Bowden, 1943.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5499 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","locale":"en","credit":"Lillian Bowden"},{"id":"a5592350-fc0f-4f03-a971-dac137a40fb2","media_id":"4c9642b7-4a1f-4b7b-812a-246e6cb6d5fe","title":"Memory Project Image #5499","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"Lillian Bowden, 1943.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5499 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","locale":"fr","credit":"Lillian Bowden"}]} "Memory Project Image #5499")
Lillian Bowden
Lillian Bowden, 1943.
Lillian Bowden
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![Lillian Bowden]({"id":"ac5b13d9-1bac-443d-9904-b34ae53cd05f","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"5502_600","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":44327,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-02T21:51:31.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-02T21:51:31.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #5502","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"The Auxiliary Territorial Service and VAD release book.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5502 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/5502_600.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/5502_600.jpg","credit":"Lillian Bowden","pivot":{"mediable_id":"152d7ee0-0f5e-4916-9c78-3aceab72ef38","media_id":"ac5b13d9-1bac-443d-9904-b34ae53cd05f","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":5},"translations":[{"id":"5e542883-328c-4b44-875c-0328fddcbe14","media_id":"ac5b13d9-1bac-443d-9904-b34ae53cd05f","title":"Memory Project Image #5502","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"The Auxiliary Territorial Service and VAD release book.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5502 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","locale":"en","credit":"Lillian Bowden"},{"id":"6b718e0c-591c-4c05-9c7b-b1db46c9d407","media_id":"ac5b13d9-1bac-443d-9904-b34ae53cd05f","title":"Memory Project Image #5502","alt":"Lillian Bowden","caption":"Livret de Service Territorial Auxiliaireet VAD.","creator":"Memory Project Image #5502 - Veteran #3714","source":"Lillian Bowden","locale":"fr","credit":"Lillian Bowden"}]} "Memory Project Image #5502")
Lillian Bowden
The Auxiliary Territorial Service and VAD release book.
Lillian Bowden
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Lillian Bowden
Lillian Bowden's release leave certificate showing her "exemplary" discharge status. Mrs. Bowden and friends in the ATS had another term for "exemplary" : undetected crime...
Lillian Bowden
My name is Liliane Bowden. I was born in Britain and was there when the war broke out. I joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service - that's the women's army - on the 9th of April 1943. I was a telephonist at that time with the post office before I joined up, so they put me into the telephonist's afterwards with the Royal Artillery.
I was at the 7th Heavy ATS Training Regiment in May 1943, posted to 132 Mixed heavy ack-ack regiment. After that I was posted to the Mixed Heavy Ack-Ack Battery. I was there until 1944. At that time they were shooting first at the aircraft, and then the buzz-bombs came over and they were shooting at those.
After the rockets came I moved and I became a clerk, and I was at Kingston as a clerk. After I was at Kingston I was over to the Second Echelon VOAR, also as a clerk. And I was completely discharged in April 1954.