RAILWAY PORTER
SPIRIT OF BRITISH WOMEN
FIVE SONS IN THE FORCES
The story cf forty-eight years old Mrs Florence Fortune is typical of the spirit that animated Britain's women. She made munitions in the last war. Since then she's had eleven children, and she is a grandmother of six. Five of her sons arc in the forces —one in Scotland, four overseas. But Mrs Fortune didn't think she was doing enough to help the war effort so she joined Britain's* army of women war workers. First slift was a cook at a railway terminus. Then she took a job as a porter in a railway station's goods yard. Now —the result of a serious accident while doing her job—Mrs Fortune lies in hospital with an injured back encased in a plaster jacket. The 8.8.C. heard about her and sent a Recording Unit to visit her, to enable her to send messages to her sons: Trooper Ronnie and Driver Harry, both in India, and Corporal Tack, in Egypt. "Walter, stationed in Gibraltar, had given his mother ;i great surprise a few days before, and going to see her in hospital. When the sister of the ward asked Mrs Fortune whether -she was feeling comfortable after her recording exertions, Mrs Fortune replied: "Sister. 1 would willingly wear this jacket another si\ months just to spvak to jny boys as I have to-day."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 3, 14 January 1942, Page 6
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230RAILWAY PORTER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 3, 14 January 1942, Page 6
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