Women's Royal Naval Service personnel
Women's Royal Naval Service personnel - The National Archives
This is a brief guide to researching records of the Women's Royal Naval Service, also known as the Wrens.
Women's Royal Naval Service - Wikipedia
WRNS included cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electricians and air mechanics. A WRNS rating during the ...
Women's Royal Naval service records 1917-1919
The WRNS was formed to carry out shore-based duties and allow sailors to go to sea. Recruitment posters encouraged women to 'Free a man for sea service'. The ...
The Wrens - Old Royal Naval College
The first WRNS courses included Officer training, Cipher and Administration. The women, known as 'Wrens' were at first stationed in Queen Anne Court, opposite ...
Our History - Association of Wrens
Commodore Jude Terry, has been selected for promotion to Rear Admiral, making her the most senior woman ever in the Royal Navy. She will take over as the Royal ...
Women's Royal Naval Service - BBC - WW2 People's War - Timeline
The WRNS reached its largest size in 1944, with 74,000 women doing over 200 different jobs. 303 Wrens were killed on wartime service. After the war the WRNS was ...
UK, Women's Royal Naval Officers' Service Records, 1917-1919
The Women's Royal Navy Service was created in 1917 in order to reserve men for seafaring roles. Members of the WRNS (affectionately called "the Wrens") were ...
The role of the Women's Royal Naval Service | SWWEC
At its height, the membership of the WRNS during the First World War had reached just over 5000 ratings and 400 officers. The importance of the ...
The Women's Royal Naval Service - Forces War Records
The WRNS was established in 1917, and excellent records were kept for women in the service; the remaining documents can be found in several classes at the ...
Women's Royal Naval Service | Imperial War Museums
Poster seeking recruits for the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), formed in 1917 to release more men for service at sea. 6,000 women served as 'Wrens' during ...
Wrens: The history of the Women's Royal Naval Service
The WRNS was an invaluable part of the war effort in WWII. By 1944, 74000 women were involved in 200 different jobs within the Navy.
Women of the Second World War: Wrens
The WRNS had begun in 1917 as part of the First World War effort, boasting 5,500 members at the end of the conflict. Though sadly disbanded in ...
THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, A HISTORY OF FEMALE ...
The WRNS was always a separate service to the RN, and would be so until 1993, which meant it developed its own leadership structures. Its second ...
Wrens: Who were they and what did they do? - Forces News
Recruitment campaign posters for the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) urged people to 'Join the Wrens and free a man for the Fleet'.
British Women's Royal Naval Service Ratings' service register 1918
Was your female British ancestor a Wren? Formed in 1917, The Women's Royal Naval Service or WRNS, recruited women eager to do their bit for the war effort in ...
'Free a man for the fleet!' - Stories of inspiring Wrens
The Women's Royal Naval Service, also known as WRNS, was a special branch of the Royal Navy formed initially to help 'free a man for the fleet!' during the ...
Women's Royal Naval Service - Lives of the First World War
Women's Royal Naval Service · M May Walley · Hilda Margaret Broadbent · Margaret Alison Thorburn · Katharine Furse · Elvira Sibyl Laughton · Evelyn Maud Northcote ...
Wrens at war: life in the Women's Royal Naval Service in WW2
Vera was just one of more than 75,000 women who served in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) during the Second World War, undertaking vital ...
The Women of D Day- The Women's Royal Naval Service
The Women's Royal Naval Service, or WRNS/Wrens, was re-established in 1939 and to take up a number of ancillary duties such as wireless telegraphy, ...
Women at War | Armed Forces - The Royal British Legion
A giant step for womankind: Britain's first all-female military unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Its historic success was secured by two women ahead of ...