Honour for Brora WAAF veteran
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A 95-year-old woman from Brora was the only Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) member from World War II to take part in the annual march past at the Cenotaph in London this year.
Jenny Cameron not only laid the wreath for her comrades, but was also interviewed by Sophie Raworth from the BBC, along with other veterans at the event.
Jenny now lives in Oxford but still has relatives in Brora and Helmsdale.
She joined the WAAF in 1942 aged 18 and trained as a radio operative at Cranwell before being posted to Ireland, then to Wales and Devon.
The work was very secret and she was not allowed to talk about it, but it involved sending co-ordinates which were then plotted on large maps.
This was the first time she had attended the ceremony.
She said: “It is wonderful being here, there’s a real feeling of belonging, a family feeling.
“It is really lovely, a great honour.
“The support from the public is wonderful, it makes me very happy.”
She said that during the march past she would be thinking of family gone, great friends and all the people of that era.
