Welcome to the WWII Forums! Log in or Sign up to interact with the community.

"I feel like my comrades are watching"

Discussion in 'WWII Today' started by GRW, Aug 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM.

  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

    Joined:
    Oct 26, 2003
    Messages:
    21,214
    Likes Received:
    3,284
    Location:
    Stirling, Scotland
    Glad they're doing something with these other than demolishing them. Place was boarded up last time I was over.
    "One of the last surviving Wrens has told of her pride at representing the generation who “gave their all” as she visited the site of her former barracks near Edinburgh.
    Dorothea Barron, aged 100, said she felt her departed comrades “watching me” as she marked the start of construction work at the old barracks near Port Edgar, which is being transformed into affordable homes.
    Ms Barron served as a visual signaller in the Women’s Royal Naval Service, playing a key role in training personnel ahead of the D-Day.
    On Thursday, she laid the first brick as construction began at the site, saying: “This is so exciting, I feel so honoured.”...
    ...She remembers arriving at the “beautiful” location as a young member of the Wrens who did not mind the fact that their accommodation was in “very rudimentary” corrugated iron huts.
    Ms Barron enlisted in the Wrens when she was 18, having been a schoolgirl in London during the Blitz."
    ‘I feel like my comrades are watching’: 100-year-old Wren visits abandoned Navy barracks
     

Share This Page