ARMY GIRLS
An Audience with WWII Gunner Girl Grace Taylor & Author Tessa Dunlop
Sunday 14 November 2021
3pm (Theatre)
Tickets & information 01202 280000
www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of conscription for women in World War Two, broadcaster and author Tessa Dunlop is joined by original ‘Gunner Girl’ Grace Taylor in Army Girls on Sunday 14 November at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, to tell the extraordinary story of Britain’s wartime female army.
Tessa, whose book Army Girls provides a unique insight into the all-female Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), will introduce the extraordinary life story of 97-year-old former ATS ack-ack girl Grace who was one of the first women to swap civvies for battledress and a steel hat to brave the Luftwaffe bombers and fight back for Britain between 1941 and 1945.
Join Tessa and Grace for a poignant and joy-filled afternoon, celebrating the ATS, an army of women that included Her Majesty the Queen and Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter, Mary.
Dr Tessa Dunlop is a twentieth-century historian, acclaimed author (Sunday Times bestseller The Century Girls and The Bletchley Girls) and Royal Television Society awarded broadcaster. Grace Taylor is a living legend!
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