When sent to go before him, she said, the deserving girl would be confronted with her offence and made sure that she had understood the charges. She was then told to “take down your drawers.”

 

The woman was then expected to pull down her service underwear to her ankles and bend over. Her skirt would then be lifted over her back . She was then spanked with a two-feet wooden ruler.

 

The octogenarian former Wren said that she was spanked in this way twice and although does not rule out a sexual motive, believes that it was more likely just about the strict discipline of those times.