South Yorkshire Times, November 17th, 1951
Mexborough Waaf is Home from Singapore
Senior Aircraftswoman Margaret Mary Plater, 22-year-old former Mexborough Grammar School student, is spending 32 days’ leave at her home, 145, Wath Road, Mexborough after returning this week-end from two years’ service with the W.R.A.F. in Singapore.
Margaret has been billeted at Changi and Seletar, a few miles out from Singapore. As pay clerk for the Flying Boat Wing she has done a fair amount of flying, mostly in Sunderlands, but the flight she remembers best was by Dakota to Ceylon for a three weeks rehabilitation course. Margaret found the Singapore climate hot but not unbearably so. Social life was similar to that in England, except that it included more swimming and sailing.
Although she has come across many local men, Margaret was on the same camp at Seletar for three months with her Mexborough next-door neighbour Flight-Lieut. Dent, and never set eyes on him once. Margaret spent her last leave in Aug at a W.R.A.F. leave centre at Penang Island on the coast of Malaya
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. L. Plater, well known Mexborough family, Margaret has two brothers serving in the Forces, both of whom attended Mexborough Grammar School. Her young brother, George, is a national serviceman with the Royal Artillery in Hong Kong; her elder brother Ronald Frederick is a Pilot Officer with the R.A.F. in Lincolnshire. Youngest of the family, seven-year-old Alan, is a pupil of Roman Terrace Junior School.