Bloomfield, Vera Peggy (nee Sheppard)

  • Township: Embro & West Zorra
  • Rank: Leading Airwoman
  • Branch: Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Gloucester, England
  • Regiment number: 2016884
  • Date of birth: February 13, 1921
  • Where born: Winchester, County Hampshire, England
  • Date of death: January 28, 2018
  • Burial location: North Embro Cemetery, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
  • Wars Served: World War II
  • Years of service: December 1941 - Sept. 1946
  • Country enlisted with: United Kingdom

Biography

Vera Peggy Shep­pard was 20 when she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in Gloucester, England, in 1941. She was discharged in September 1946, after serving at a number of Royal Air Force stations in England. “I remember a squadron of Royal Canadian Air Force taking over our station and a handful of our unit, including me, working for them for six months,” she says. “We were really spoiled. I have good memories, of chocolate candies, food and invitations to all their entertainment.” Now Peggy Bloomfield, she lives at 59 Com­missioner St., Embro.

 

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