"DO YOU REMEMBER?'

Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 13

"DO YOU REMEMBER?'

"W.A.A.CS" AT REUNION

IVo of the first women to leave England for France as members of tho W.A.A.C. met for tho first -time since the war at a reunion dinner in London recently. One holds a high Government position, the.other is a farmer's wife from the north, who paid her first visit to London since 1918 for this dinner. Thrilling war-timo stories were exchanged among the 650 women present. Factory girls and servants who. had. saved for woeks to pay their fare came from all parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, and sat beside women earning large incomes. 'Do you remember?" was a phrase which marked tho beginnings of most questions, and reminiscences followod, some amusing and somo infinitely pathetic. . Elderly "W.A.A.C?" forgot the years and exclaimed with delight over deeds of women they had known as girls in their 'teens. One grey-haired woman swept away the years with a gesturo as she looked at a snapshot of a much younger companion's two children. "Mary with twins three years old!" she exclaimed, and forgot that twelve years had passed since she had known Mary as a girl of nineteen! And in all tho gathoring there were only five men, among them Major-Gon-eral Sir Frederick Maurice, K.C.M.G., 18. Dame Helen Gwynne-A raughan, chairman of the council of tho Old Comrades' Association, presidod over the dinner. . This was the tenth annual dinner of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Old Comrades' Association, and many of the women have attended each function without a break.