Ivy Murial Bertha Wellband

Whilst working for an Army department on the ground floor of a country house near Sevenoaks, she was asked to do some work for another unit upstairs. They were unusual in that the officers did not wear uniform, although the other ranks did. She said "I thought we'd find out what they were up to, but not a hope. In three weeks of little jobs there was no clue at all." Eventually she was asked to join he staff permanently and was told she had to sign the Official Secrets Act. He proved to be the Intelligence Officer for Kent and Sussex, presumably Captain, later Major Fraser. The plan was that she go to Edinburgh to attend an ATS Officer Cadet Training Unit for a commission. At this point her husband, doubtless remembering her distant posting in the WAAF, told her that she could not do this. Mrs Wellband said, "By that time, I was somewhat in the know, so they decided to let me stay on as a civilian, though I always had to go to an Army base to be paid."

She had access to files with all the names of the personnel in each cell. There was also another file, locked away in an old clothes cupboard, only to be opened in the event of an invasion. Since this never happed, she was never to know what orders this might have contained. She never spoke to her husband about the detail of her work, not until she read about Auxiliary Units in The Last Ditch in 1968, when she felt free to talk about it.