Meanvhile 1 makes one angry rearm that another Royal howe has been bombed, namely, Kensington Patnee, though in fact the last of our Sovereigns to live there. was. Queen wadi was born there, and she Tet it soon" after that. memorable May morning in 1837 when she was Foured from sleep. and crime downe Stairs in a dressing From the Archbishop Canterbury that she. was Queen, "blore than any building in London another axe, carrying about it pleasant, rather autumn memories, William and Mary bought it in 1689 for a royal palace and had enlarged and improved by Sir Christopher "Wren, Queen Anne red there and ree I, who built ed contact, Sut, Tu ud Corpl Henderson were on duly in a building which received 1 direct hit, Nevertheless, although bombs were falling thickly. they stayed where they were, work, til the building was in flames and they were ordered to retire, which they could only do by crawling through & mass of wreckage, There is nothing in the past histor of these girls to suggest that they had any: special streak of the heroic them, Corpl. Henderson is the daughter of a Scottish K.C,, who fore the war had been secretary to surgeon in Edinburgh, Sergt, Mor timer had been one of the. women organizers of the Conservative Party which certainly, {0 some thinking sual nerve, Only Sergt.
worked in the last war with, the old Royal Flying Corps andi since than had been a telephone operator at the Savoy, There Is reason to think that the ture now decorated are only. out standing cases. The record of alt the ati telephonists in the W.A.A.P. fs exceedingly high and many" other fine Instanees of coolness and nerve might be quoted from among them. But, as one girl satd, "After years of putting up with the illtempers of telephone-users, what are a few of Hitler's bombs tow
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