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[Whatley, Mary - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

526913

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2000-08-09

Item number (ISN):

526913

Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADA. DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE FONDS / FONDS DU MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE NATIONALE

Accession:

2016-0078

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

2000-08-09

Production company:

Directorate of History and Heritage
Department of National Defence
Lisa Banister
Directorate Materiel Group Human Resources

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Mary Whatley participated in an oral history interview conducted by Lisa Bannister on 09/08/2000. The interview was used to create a first-person narrative for Bannister's published work "Equal to the Challenge: An Anthology of Women's Experiences during World War II." Whatley was fifteen and living at home on her father's dairy farm when the war broke out. She wanted to join the Women's Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force with her sister in January 1942 but was not old enough at the time. Instead she started working at MacDonald Chemicals and then at Ingersol Rand. By mid-1942 the RCAF lowered its age limit which allowed her to enlist and she was sent to Rockcliffe, ON, for basic training and then posted to Trenton, ON, for an equipment assistant course. She had a hard time during service. In the fall of 1942 she and her family learnt that her brother had been captured by the Japanese. That winter she fell and struggled with the resulting memory problems throughout her service and up until 1997. After the course at Trenton she was posted back to Rockcliffe and worked in Purchasing and Inventory. She had more medical issues, this time a battle with the mumps. In February 1944, she received news her brother has died just after his twenty-second birthday. His death seemed to start a string of deaths of people she knew. Whatley does take time to discuss how she did enjoy herself during off duty periods and how the friendships are her fondest memories of service time. The audio cassette is Whatley providing deffinitions of terms and descriptions of people, places, and events that on which Banister wished her to elaborate.

Language:

English

Original number:

2004/6

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1. Tape speed: 2.4cm.~2. First draft of narrative produced from the content of the interview is available.~4. Whatley provided a second interview which can be found by searching ICD 526978.
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