Events2Join

Women's Royal Naval service records 1917|1919


Women and the Navy in the Age of Sail – Lecture | NMMC

At the height of the First World War the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was formed in 1917. ... She has written extensively on naval history and piracy ...

Army – First World War: 1914–18 | naa.gov.au

The National Archives holds records of Australian servicemen and women from the First World War ... Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train (RANBT) – helped ...

Royal Navy - Wikipedia

Women began to join the Royal Navy in 1917 with the formation of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), which was disbanded after the end of the First ...

Remembering the women who gave their all during the two world wars

Born in Cork, Ireland, she worked as a shorthand typist after enlisting in the WRNS on 17th September 1917. On 10th October, 1918, she and two ...

​Royal Canadian Navy Service Ledger Sheets, 1910 to 1941

... 1919 and 1941, and some who served in the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve. On this page. Search the database; Access the records; About the ...

Record Sets | Allied Air Force Research

British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records 1704-1919 ... UK, Women's Royal Naval Officers' Service Records 1917-1919. UK, Women's ...

1 Royal Canadian Navy, 1910–1919, 1939–1945, and the Merchant ...

All of Canada's naval personnel records for the First World War are held by Library and Archives Canada (lac). Service Files of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1910– ...

Federal Records Guide: Alphabetical Index - W - National Archives

Women's Service Section (Railroad Administration) 14.6.2 women's ... Naval Personnel Bureau history 24.7 photographs 80.11 peace treaties 335.8

What's Available Where Online for British Military Databases

British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records, 1704-1919 ... Army. Women's Royal Naval service records 1917-1919, TNA, Navy. Royal Air Force ...

Women's Royal Naval Service | Australian War Memorial

The WRNS was formed in 1917 as the official women's branch of the Royal Navy. ... Help preserve Australia's history by transcribing records from the ...

World War I era Yeomen (F) - Naval History and Heritage Command

The Naval Reserve Act of 1916 had conspicuously omitted mention of gender as a condition for service, leading to formal permission to begin enlisting women in ...

Shipboard Nurses in the First World War | Historic England

Pioneers in Women's Naval Service · Anglia, Irish hospital ship, 1915, off Dover · Donegal, British casualty clearing vessel, 1917, off Sussex, wreck event ...

The WRNS : a history of the Women's Royal Naval Service : Fletcher ...

Women's Royal Naval Service (1917-1919) -- History, Great Britain. ... Royal Navy Women's Royal Naval Service, history. Publisher: London ...

Useful Websites - Military | National Records of Scotland

Click on the links below for First World War websites and information about army, navy and Royal Air Force records and museums as well as battles and ...

Association of Wrens - St Mary le Strand

Women's Royal Naval Service was formed in November 1917 to aid the Admiralty fill domestic and clerical roles, but the women went on to serve as despatch riders ...

Remembering the WRNS - Student Project (Part Two)

The Women's Royal Naval Service was established in 1917 during World War I, despite widespread resistance to women participating in any branch of the military.

Women's Royal Naval Service | Military Wiki - Fandom

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the ...

Women's Royal Naval Service uniform: pattern 1917-19

This rating's dress is made of navy blue serge, with a small sailor collar and patch pockets. The buttons are made of black horn with the crown-and-anchor ...

Women and the Royal Navy - Port Towns and Urban Cultures

See here for more details Women and the Royal Navy. Dr Hannah Roberts's book The WRNS in Wartime. The Women's Royal Naval Service 1917-1945 ...

The WRNS in Wartime: The Women's Royal Naval; Service 1917–45

Based on: Roberts Hannah, The WRNS in Wartime: The Women's Royal Naval; Service 1917–45. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018. xii + 276 pp., ...