Typescript copy of the memoir of Pamela Aurea Hoare, covering her service in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) at Shoeburyness in 1939-1940 and the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) at Falmouth and Plymouth in 1940-1943. Throughout there are references to her romance with the Lieutenant Arthur Bond, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who died while attached to the Devonshire Regiment at Imphal on 7 June 1944. Made on loose sheets (383 pages) and including some papers relating to the possible publication of the memoir.

Administrative / biographical background
Pamela Aurea Alexander was the eldest daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles Otway Alexander (1888-1970). Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Alexander family lived at Erwarton Hall at Shotley and Pamela joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) at nearby Ipswich. In September 1939 she was posted to Shoeburyness barracks and attached to 22nd Medium and Heavy Training Regiment, Royal Artillery. In August 1940 she joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and was then engaged in coding duties at Falmouth and Plymouth. Later she volunteered for training as boat crew at HMS Drake and was employed on harbour craft. She married Kenneth Newcombe Hoare at Torpoint in 1942. Later in life she followed an interest in archaeology and was a member of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. She died at Weymouth in 2008.