Beryl Daley.

Interviewed by Eve Klein on 15th April 2002
Subject: Second World War

Beryl Daley. Yes, well Hitler was moving across Europe, and every day we would come in and have to check what country had fallen overnight to the Nazis, and cut our cloth accordingly. I didn’t go straight into that job, I was put into a typing pool at first, and then, of course, some of the women in charge recognized my shorthand skills and so in no time I was doing the minutes for Lord Lloyd himself. It is very interesting reading about it at this distance now.

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