Continuing Women's History Month:
Remembering the women who joined the Auxiliary Territoral Service and lost there lives.
Today we remember Volunteer Gertie May Evelyn "Bunty" Aldrich.
Gertie May Evelyn “Bunty” Aldrich daughter of Major Arthur James Aldrich Royal Artillery and Gertie May Young. She was born on 9th December 1918, Bromley, Kent.
Gertie volunteered in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Rank Volunteer. Service No. W/17424. Special Wireless Section ‘Y’ Services, Fort Bridgewoods. Signal Section Eastern Command Signals.
On 17th October 1940 Volunteer Gertie Aldrich was killed by enemy action Medway, Kent aged 21. She is buried at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Folkestone, Shepway District, Kent.
Gertie was a clerk and on the 1939 census, she was living in Borstal Road, Rochester, Kent. She was killed at work when a bomb was dropped a few yards away. Gertie and 2 other A.T.S women were killed.
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