For the Duration: A Lighthearted WAAF Memoir

List of Illustrations

xi Illustrations Felicity in uniform, 1939 Frontispiece 1. Milk, Felicity’s Spanish Civil War poster 8 2. Bentley Priory 12 3. Filter Room at Bentley Priory, 1940 14 4. Sketch of “Stuffy” Dowding 17 5. Felicity visiting her parents 18 6. “Lovely Languid Debutante” 21 7. No. 74 Cheyne Walk 39 8. Felicity’s notes for Filtered Fragments 44 9. Security booklet original cover 60 10. Security booklet original proposal detail 62 11. TEE EMM magazine copies of Felicity’s drawings 63 12. Blue and Khaki No. 2 program 64 13. Shuddering Heights prisoners 65 14. Shuddering Heights, Bibi & Lolo 65 15. Shuddering Heights, the “Count” and the “Marquis” 66 16. Shuddering Heights, Aspidistra and Marmaduke 66 17. Officer Ashbee instructing WAAFs in “civics” 72 18. “Cooks Mural” photo in Felicity’s original manuscript 74 19. Russia, sketch and mural for dining-hall wall, Middle Wallop 74 20. Wings, drawing for poster 80 21. “I’m Dreaming of a White Nighty” 81 22. The Stars Look Down opening chorus 86 23. Scene from The Mystery of Udolpho 87 24. “Kit Inspections,” Nazis and South Seas hula dancer 89 25. Mock circus cast from The Show Goes On 92 26. Mock circus strong men, divers, and fairies 93 xii | Illustrations 27. Padre as Sir Willoughby Shudderbottom 104 28. RAF Stenigot transmitting tower 124 29. Pay Night woodcut 126 30. RAF Avro Lancaster B1 bomber 133 31. Felicity’s notes for Wakey-Wakey 135 32. Opening chorus for Wakey-Wakey 135 33. “Crime Marches On: A Women’s Auxiliary Luftwaff Board” 136 34. RAF Cranwell College Hall, 2010 146 35. Program cover for She Stoops to Conquer 166 36. Program for She Stoops to Conquer 166 37. Kate Hardcastle and Young Marlow, She Stoops to Conquer 167 38. Scene from She Stoops to Conquer 168 39. 2213 Flight Officer Ashbee, 1946 171 40. Felicity’s woodcut from WAAF magazine 174 41. Show log book 193 42. Riggormortis costume 209 ...