Memoirs: The Roy Burt Collection, RCNVR and Combined Operations (5)

Looking Back 50 Years to 1944. Women Signed Up for 'War Work'

News Article from the 1994 Toronto Star

Standard issue gas mask makes quite the fashion statement!

Introduction:

If you were looking for work to support the war effort in the 1940s I think you wouldn't have too much trouble finding a job that suited your skill set, as long as you, for example, knew one end of a Sten gun from the other. But if you're looking for the reason why Roy Burt (a member of RCNVR and Combined Operations during WWII) included this article from 1994 in his vast collection of memorabilia I think the answer might not be exact, or immediately apparent.

However, I know Roy got married (like my father) while in uniform, and his new wife may have wanted to break out of the mold (re women staying in the home) and get a job making Sten guns, or the ammunition, or one of hundreds of other jobs that had been in the sole domain of men for many years.
Roy also played a role in D-Day Normandy in 1944, and in remembrance activities in France in 1994, so any related news articles would have been recommended reading when they came off the press.

A Lucille Ball look-a-like spotted Roy's flashy ring!

Or his brawny bicep, built by bacon!

Is she the inspiration for Edward Scissorhands??

More material from the Roy Burt Collection will follow in the near future.

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