Sorry Ladies!!!!

As we were a Task Force it often meant our shift would be working at night. If you were caught around the tent lines during the day someone would find a job for you, even though you had worked your shift the night before. So, it was best if you weren’t found around the tent lines. One afternoon while making ourselves scarce, we discovered a very good swimming lagoon (picture in gallery). We quite often visited this lagoon it was about half an hours walk from the airfield camp of 59 Squadron. We thought of this lagoon as our own as we had never met anybody else there. Then one day,  three of us went for a swim. One of the group was on his first visit to the lagoon, and, as usual it was quite hot. He asked where the lagoon was and was told just through the palms. He walked on ahead and when he saw it he just stripped off  all his clothes and ran naked to the water and we saw him jumping in and shouting and yahooing and then we noticed there were two other swimmers in the water. We never did reach the lagoon because we were stopped in our tracks by a very, very loud voice which barked out," I’m Sergeant???? Get out of there and get back to your camp!!" Instinctively we did an about turn and headed back to camp. We were soon joined by our wet friend. We asked him what was up with the Sergeant. To which he replied, “There was two women in there swimming and they looked about as old as my Mother” They would have been the only two white women on the Island and they were in our swimming lagoon. Later we heard they were W.V.S. (Women’s Voluntary Service) I think they came to set up one of their projects on the Island at the Main Camp. Might have been a Library. I bet it was a bit of a shock for those Ladies but knowing W,V.S. Ladies they would have pretended it didn’t happen. There was no follow up enquiry and I just hope their Chaperone is not still looking for us.!! Sorry Ladies. We never had a chance to apologise.