Would they have allowed a pregnant unmarried woman to be an army entertainer (World on Fire)

[LylaLee]

I'm just on S1 episode 5 now, and it seems unlikely to be something they would have allowed. Am I wrong?

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No idea but I wondered likewise!

And the black Parisian jazz player storyline is perfectly believable, but I don't know how open minded the UK army would have been in choosing a black singer as a 'pin up girl' to entertain the troops.

Even if they weren't being moralistic about the pregnancy, the girls were there to be eye candy to cheer up the troops. The organisers would have understood this. Maybe before she started showing, fine. But not with a bump.

I think she would have been dismissed as soon as it was known about. Thats what happened with the Forces

Agreed. Even if her dad and brother were chilled about it, most people wouldn't have been. She would have been an outcast/controversial figure even 20 years later in the 60s.

What really would have happened most likely is she would have gone to Wales to have the baby with her aunt and uncle and left it there. Maybe told the dad & grandma too.

In our family during the war one of the women was unmarried and pregnant. She told her family that she'd got a posting in Scotland and went to give birth there, returning when her baby was adopted at 6 weeks (when they were weaned).

Her family never knew. She sad she'd have been thrown out of the family if anyone had found out.
It only came out after most of her family had died, 60 years later.

That's sad.

I remember a different film about an unmarried pregnant woman ww2 times, but she was rich, and whatever the rich do is 'eccentric'. She moved in arty, bohemian circles, and got away with it, not an outcast (farmed the baby out to cousins).

But a northern working class girl would have not been able to show her face, I'm certain. Even if they had shown a couple of scenes of not being served in shops that would have been realistic.

I'm on season 2 now. Still enjoying the show.