WAR WORK IN ENGLAND
GIRL FROM WAIPUKURAU (0.c.) LONDON, Sept. 16 A New Zealand girl who drove Dunkirk casualties from hospital ships to the nearest operating tables and who is now teaching recruits to the A.T.S. to drive is Miss Antoinette Wilder, of Waipukurau. She was formerly attached to the F.A.N.Y. and is shortly to take a commission in the A.T.S. Lance-Corporal Wilder is one of several New Zealand girls in the women's territorial services. Others include Miss Georgette Handyside (Wellington), Miss Shirley Ormerod (Gishorne), Miss Aurelia Hobson (Waipukurau), Miss Cynthia Wilson (Bulls), Miss .lunette Williams (Gisborne), and Miss Lorna Luke (Wellington). For the past two months Miss Wilder has been an instructor in driving at a training centre for A.T.S. drivers. Everv recruit takes a seven weeks' course and in addition to learning to drive ambulances, heavy motor lorries and cars, they take lectures on gas, lirst-aid, mechanics and other subjects. They receive their driving instruction from 10 a.m. until 12..'10 p.m. and again from 2.30 p.m. until p.m. After she has taken her commission at an O.C.T.U. it is possible that Miss Wilder may be posted to an anti-air-craft battery.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24104, 24 October 1941, Page 2
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