Post recruitment. During the war Mary worked as a teleprinter operator for the ATS, moving to France with the Americans SHAEF in 1944. She was amongst the first lot of women to go to Paris after the Germans left.
Mary Tootill was a member of the bakery family who lived on Church Street, Mytholmroyd. Her brother was Slater Toothill who served in WWI. She died in 1953. See also ALC00690