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Joan Nicholls - Film 1
In this the first of 20 films, Joan talks about he...Joan Nicholls - Film 1
Joan Nicholls - Film 2
Joan provides detail about her time as a Teleprint...Joan Nicholls - Film 2
Joan Nicholls - Film 3
In March 1942 Joan passed out at Trowbridge, and w...Joan Nicholls - Film 3
Joan Nicholls - Film 4
Joan recalls the bombing in Trowbridge when she wa...Joan Nicholls - Film 4
Joan Nicholls - Film 5
Joan talks about the set up at Beaumanor Hall. Now...Joan Nicholls - Film 5
Joan Nicholls - Film 6
Joan is put in her own set room. She starts to lis...Joan Nicholls - Film 6
Joan Nicholls - Film 7
Joan talks about the procedure was for transmittin...Joan Nicholls - Film 7
Joan Nicholls - Film 8
In the hut that Joan worked, there were approximat...Joan Nicholls - Film 8
Joan Nicholls - Film 9
Jan talks about the German deception methods for p...Joan Nicholls - Film 9
Joan Nicholls - Film 10
Joan was in C Watch. There was process for the cha...Joan Nicholls - Film 10
Joan Nicholls - Film 11
Some of the work was done by the tactical force wh...Joan Nicholls - Film 11
Joan Nicholls - Film 12
Joan talks about her social life. One man in parti...Joan Nicholls - Film 12
Joan Nicholls - Film 13
Joan talks about some of the different signals she...Joan Nicholls - Film 13
Joan Nicholls - Film 14
Joan talks about the types of messages she receive...Joan Nicholls - Film 14
Joan Nicholls - Film 15
Joan left the ATS on the 31st of March 1945. She ...Joan Nicholls - Film 15
Joan Nicholls - Film 16
The Y Service was the forerunner to The Government...Joan Nicholls - Film 16
Joan Nicholls - Film 17
With no official badge for the ATS in Y Service, o...Joan Nicholls - Film 17
Joan Nicholls - Film 18
Joan Nicholls was the first one to write about the...Joan Nicholls - Film 18
Joan Nicholls - Film 19
Joan describes the living, washing, sleeping arran...Joan Nicholls - Film 19
Joan Nicholls - Film 20
Joan talks about the Y Service memorial at the Nat...Joan Nicholls - Film 20
Member of ATS recruited into Y Service for interception of Enigma wireless signals at Beaumanor near Loughborough in Leicestershire. As a Y Service historian she wrote "England Needs You” - the Story of the Beaumanor Y station.
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Joan Nicholls
Joan Nicolls gives a thoroughly interesting account of her time in the ATS where she was recruited into the Y-service.
