Catherine told her story on the BBC Wales Bus. The following is a transcription based on the interview.

During the Second World War I was a nursing orderly in the WAAFs (Women's Auxiliary Air Force). I was sent to Wolverhampton first, and then to Harrogate for training and then in the end I was stationed at Pershore, and after being there so many years then, I was stationed at Ossington.

But my father was taken ill and I asked if I could come nearer home, I tried Swansea and Llanelli, but no and arrived in Church Village outside Cardiff, in a hospital there, and that's where I finished. I still write to people that I met, one up in London and one in Yorkshire. We worked under a Squadron Leader Doctor.

I was on leave and waiting in Worcester station for a train to take me to Swansea station with another soldier who I didn't know and another WAAF. The train arrived in late and all the soldiers were lying in the corridor, sleeping, they'd been travelling all night, so this soldier said to this WAAF and me, 'Follow me,' and he took us into the first class corridor.

There was a man sitting in a compartment, a dapper man, on his own with a beard, I see him now with white hair, looking out of the window, and along comes the ticket collector. In a while he comes out and he said to the soldier, 'I've had orders to remove you. This gentleman in there says that you're blocking his view.' He said, 'We're not moving from here, but once we get to Swansea Station, we're going to the Special Police and report it.'

That was one story. I can still see that man. He had all of the window to himself, we were stuck in the corner in the corridor. We said we were fighting for the likes of him.