248694 Irene Cloke Staunton Womens Auxiliary Air Force from:Mevagissey, Cornwall Mum, Irene Staunton joined up with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force at the start of the war, she became a cook, previously she was in service to a local Councillor who ran a paper shop. She always liked it when the papers were late and the paper boys had to go to school as she made an extra sixpence delivering the papers.
Anyway, she always said the war was the best thing that happened to her as it got her out of Mevagissey. She also told me that during those war years she lived life to the full. She was based at St Eval at one point and then she found out she was being stationed in Scotland and a Scottish girl wanted her to swap so she would be nearer home, but mum didn't want to stay in Cornwall. On VE Day she met my Dad and they married 3 months later, he was sailor.
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