ENLISTED AS A MAN
» WOMAN DRIVER'S CONFESSION WANTED TO "HAVE A FLOP AT HITLER" (From The Guardian's London Correspondent) LONDON, October 14. Because she wanted to 'have a flop at Hitler,' a Welsh woman posed as a man so that she could drive a lorry. She is Mrs Mary Evans, who lives at Aberavon, Glamorganshire. When was was declared she joined the W.V.S. in Order to drive an ambulance but failed to pass the driving test. "The new kind of clutch got me down," she said this week. "But I was a lorry driver during the Great War and knew I could qualify. "The only way was to masquerade as a man, so I had my hair cropped, put on dungarees and a cap and applied for a job to drive a milk lorry to Carmarthen every day. I got it, but after a few days I had to confess that I was a woman. The firm kept me on and now that I have passed the driving test I have joined up and am expecting my calling-up papers every day. You won't catch me staying at home scrubbing floors when there is a war on. I want to have a flop at Hitler." ,
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 91, 17 November 1939, Page 2
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204ENLISTED AS A MAN Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 91, 17 November 1939, Page 2
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