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LEADING WREN ANNE TATE works as a meteorologist_at Arbroath, Scotland. Her home is in Oxford. She goes in for many sports in off-duty hours, but of training says: "I never train, ft would spoll the fux."

CORPORAL PAT FARLEIGH, named as WRAF Girl of the Year by the Service magazine Royal Air Force Review, volun- teered for service in Germany after three years' service in the United Kingdom. In the Hindenburg Stadiura, Hanover, she set up a new WRAF record for the 200 metres

JOHN

They Made Their Mark

The Lieutenant, the Corporal and the Leading Wren point to the new type of women in uniform

W

the

HO are the girls who many this summer), swim- have made their ming, riding, gliding; mark in 19517 The climbing, tennis, yachting names of three are: Pat and dancing. Farleigh, Anne Tate and "She paints," says Carol Weaver. These are not RAF Review, admiringly, household names. But the "to a new type of British owner of each has, during Servicewoman, in her ap- the past year, become some proach to her duties thing of a celebrity in her her outlook upon own sphere-Corporal Pat place in the Services." Farleigh in the WRAF. Leading Wren Anne Tate in the WRNS, and Lieu- tenant Carol Weaver in the WRAC.

These girls are part of the answer to all the jokes about women in uniform. They

are

young women of assorted but undeni- able talents, who take

their careers

in the Ser-

and woman's

The Navy does not select a girl of the year from among the WRNS. If they did so, LEADING WREN ANNE TATE, whose home is in Oxford, might easily qualify.

By Robert Kingsley

vices as seriously their fathers or would have done.

Leading

Wren Tate is

a tall, attrac- Live, fair-

haired girl, 20

years old.

who has signed on

as ever in the Service for four brothers yeara, and is stationed

at Arbroath, where she works as a meteorologist.

When we saw her, she CORPORAL FARLEIGH had just come from win- hay been named in

ning the WRNS squash- RAF magazine as the rackets championships at WRAF Girl of the Year. Greenwich. She only took She is 21 years old, auburn up the game when she en- haired, and works as a tered the Service in 1949. clerk at a RAF headquar- She entered the WRNS ters in Germany.

championship in the win- ter of that year, and was black knocked out, with a

souvenir (she

She joined the Service four years ago, and if you extra- asked her what her curricular interests were she would reply: athletics (she set up & WRAF record for the 200 metres in Ger-

LIQUID HISTORY

London.

By

Hazel May

a eye for happened to cross the path of her opponent's racket). The following winter she won the championship.

Leading Wren Tate (who joined the Service, she says, on the spur of the moment) has won Service competitions in hurdling and javelin throwing. She is also a high jumper and a sprinter. In the summer she rides, as a member of the Royal Navy Polo Club, and in the winter, as A

member of a Service ski- ing club, she gets skiing in the Cairngorms.

HEUTENANT CAKOL WEAVER, best officer-cades of her course in the WRAC, wears the new dark-green dress uniform,

to

LIEUTENANT WEAVER plays hockey, tennis, netball, and dignation by its abhorrent and, as it grew darker, appeared

has been appointed sports officer of Her London unit. view which more and more: and in corners JOHN Burns, a great Lon- stench a

and upon steeples, and between

University when she joined up. Lieutenant Weaver intended doner, once stood gazing might be echoed even today churches and houses, as far as

ΟΤΙ Η short-service dwellers in & we could see up the hill of the All these are strictly Because of this, after her initial to join up but cadet-train- basla,

was persuaded recrull-and officer down on the River Thames by riverside from the

City, in a most horrid, malicious, spare-time activities. Lead- terrace of the London summer.

ing, she

received her second engage as a regular. Now she is bloody flame, not like the fine

Instead the "pip" as a full lieutenant within glad she has done so. House of Commons. Sud-

ing Wren Tate has July fame of an ordinary fire.

88 རྗ few weeks of being commis- of Alling in a few years by join- denly he turned to a friend

Bloned. Her BA was worth 21 ing the WRAC, she has become a at his elbow

strong We stayed till, it being darkish, same working hours

we saw the fire as only one en- anyone else in her category. Blo

career-girl in uniform. "the

months' seniority. she still finds time Now Lieutenant Weaver 13 tire arch of fire from this to the Yet other side the bridge, and in a when she is off duty to coach stationed in London, doing the how up the hill for an arch of fellow Wrens in handicrafts two years' regimental

One warm day in and said: 1858, we learn, the

odour of the river Royal sense assailed."

"There flows liquid history."

most

above a mile long: it made me

the

It may be some time before duty daughters are entered for their

to

Now for the first time two people have worked

whatever their weep to see it. The churches, and take walking-on parts with which all WRAC officers, mothers' Service as sons have qualifications, long succeeded their fathers. It will be even longer before por- together to produce the

houses, and all on fire, and flam- in unit amateur dramatics. begin their service. first anthology of London's

She arrived knowing French traits of Service-women ances So great was public ing at once: and a horrid noise

and German, and now she is tors are commonplace among the great river. The result of

she generals and the admirals on their labours is one of the indignation on this occasion the flames made, and the crack-

But when these Though the Army, like learning Russian, which

described to me as a lovely the walls, fascinating bedside that a contributor to Punch ling of houses at their ruine."

Navy, does

and not language,

comparatively things come about it will partly There is a brief record of the

thanks like learning be It wrote: books for many years.

the Farleighs, Tates and Weavers and the other will delight all who know "How shall I state what winter of 1884 when the Thames nominate a girl of the year, simple if you

printing press LIEUTENANT CAROL languages." froze, when a

whose

Servico She plays tennis, hockey, net- all-rounders, and love Britain's historic

thousands saw,

WEAVER was singled out ball, is keen on mountaineering, careers, emphasise the breadth water highway.

Indignant, yet oppressed

earlier last

year for dis- and is sporta officer for the and scope of life for women in with awe,

tinction. At the WRAC WRACs in her unit. equivalent to Sandhurst, in summer, Lieu- "The frost continuing more the early

Thames tenant Weaver was present- The River's perfume was and more severe, the

before London was still planted ed by the Princess Royal so vile,

with booths in formal streets, all with the sash of honour as she sorts of trade and shops furnish-

Says W. J. Brown in his foreword:

mer-

to

Their blood which well

nigh froze?

The Sovereign, as

neared Dogs' Isle,

was set up on the ice:

ed, and full of commodities, even the best officer-cadet of her to a printing press, where the course.

Was fain to hold-ney do ladies took a fancy to have their Lieutenant Weaver, a pretty,

not smile-

A bouquet to her nose. And he appealed:

"The River is all things to all men. To the chant it is the gateway to the Seven Seas and the markets of the world: the traveller, the starting- point for the ends of the earth: to the farmer, the irrigator of his gentle

fields: familiar

the fisherman, the Mecca of his the solitary delight: to

mudlark, London

If his paddling-ground: to lovers, a refuge for the evenings of summer: to the youth of Oxford and Cambridge, the scene of annual battle

for

to

names printed, and the day and dark-hatred girl of 26, from joined the year set down when printed Newcastle-under-Lyme,

on the Thames: this humour took the WRAC under the special for aniversity was entry scheme 80 universally that it

already

"Where shall the Con- estimated the printer gained graduates. She

BA from

stitution gu,

sewage shall much longer flow,

a day, for printing a line only, sessed at sixpence a game, besides what he got by ballads, etc. Coaches plied from Westminster to the

The banks, old Thames, Temple, and from several other

between ?"

stairs to and fro, as in the streets, sleds, sliding with skates, a bull- baiting, horses and coach-racers,

The most unlikely au- puppet-plays and interludes, the thors and poets appear cooks, tippling and lewd places water: to the Thames Con- side by side-Lewis Carroll so that it seemed to be a bac-

supremacy un

servancy Board-a

of water supply."

source and

carnival

Arnold, Chanallan triumph, or Matthew Jonathan Swift and Shel on the water. ley, Laurence Binyon and The book is enriched by T. S. Eliot, Kipling, Julius productions of famous paintings Caesar, Walter Scott, Vir- of the Thames by well-known ginia Woolfe and Daniel artis Turner, Wilson Steer and Victor Pasmore have captured moods that every river-lover knows. But one regrets that it

In this collection at Defoe. verge and prose from Naturally we flad Pepys well was not possible to reproduce magazines and periodicals,

C

as well as from some of represented among the most these in colour, and Whistler vivid chroniclers of London's would mom a lamentable oenig. England's greatest poets ver. There is

*wonderful alon and writers, we find the description by him of "on In Thames variously described. To some It is allent Buite Great Fire." Pepys spent

the night watching it. highway the "fair and goodly en Thames,

the "When we could endure no "silver. Thames" and re upon the water, we to The clean Thames border.

over al

ed by its varden

To at

The book aches with nostalgia, but for two lines warranted to

stir the heart of any one who has ever loved the Thames. I would select:

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