A female Second World War veteran has revealed how she stuffed cardboard in her shoes in order to get around height restrictions and serve her country. Dorothea Barron, now 99, was only 15 when ...

During World War II there was rationing and a child ... During the Depression, a piece of cardboard in the bottom of my shoe covered up the hole in the sole, not a good fix on a rainy day.

One of the last surviving Wrens who fought in the Second World War has told how she put cardboard in her shoes so she was tall enough to join the service. Dorothea Barron, aged 100, said she was ...