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Right: A WAAF
driver refueling
an ambulance
similar to that
which Kay
drove.
Kay was
interviewed
in 2014 and
discussed her
work during the
Blitz:
“One night was particularly bad for res, even the re hoses were burning.
We were sent to a job on a hill in North London with sweeping views. The
whole of London was on re including countless churches.Suddenly there
was a terric clap of thunder and ngers of lightning lit up the sky. Rain
came down in buckets, drenching the res. It felt like divine intervention.
‘Now we’ll see what God can do,’ I said to my colleague Joan. Joan was
killed soon afterwards that very night. One minute she was working right
by my side and we were talking, the next moment I turned around and
she was dead on the oor. A piece of shrapnel had caught her in the neck.
The tragedy is that she had only been married a few weeks when her
husband, a pilot in the RAF, was shot down and killed during the Battle
of Britain earlier that summer. Now she too was dead. However I didn’t
have time to grieve for her or dwell on the dangers, I just had to get on
with things.”
Kay got married in 1943, and is pictured opposite on her wedding day.