I'm Sadie Watts. My maiden name was Jodrey. I joined the CWAC [Canadian Women's Army Corps] in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 26th of February 1943. Basic training: March the 11th 1943, Kitchener, Ontario. Took a four month-stenographer course, one month recruiting precision squad. Twenty-seven months orderly room clerk, Embarkation Transit Unit Halifax, Pier 21, was where I worked.

Hospital ships, war brides, prisoners of war, troops coming back from overseas – those were the different ships that came into that unit where we were. My husband was on the troop ships, as he was military police, and that's how we met.

I received the [Canadian] Volunteer [Service Medal] and the War Medal [1939-45], and have attended six reunions – two Peterborough, Ontario, one London Ontario, one in Newfoundland, fiftieth in Ottawa, one in Windsor. Attended the CWAC memorial in Kitchener in 2001, where a CWAC statue was unveiled. The Lieutenant-Governor Hillary Weston and Brigadier General Robin Daniel attended that. Approximately twelve hundred attended.

I retired in March 1946, when the unity closed out and the CWAC were disbanded