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1915.03 |
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Women's Legion
formed as a non-military volunteer corps to
support catering and ambulance driving services |
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1917.03 |
Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps
formed to provide cooking and catering, storekeeping,
clerical work, telephony and administration, printing, motor vehicle
maintenance for the Army |
general
service personnel (but not Transport Section) absorbed by WAAC |
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1918.04.09 |
Queen Mary's
Army Auxiliary Corps
(named for Queen
Mary) |
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1919 |
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disbanded |
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1921.09.27 |
disbanded |
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1938.09.09 |
Auxiliary
Territorial Service
formed as a women's auxiliary, numbering 20,000
during the Second World War; women served as office, mess and telephone
orderlies, drivers, postal workers, butchers, bakers, ammunition
inspectors, military police, gun crews, and many other operational
support tasks; and incorporated First Aid
Nursing Yeomanry, which provided most of the ATS Transport
Section |
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1949 |
disbanded,
and remaining cadre absorbed by Women's Royal
Army Corps |
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1949.02.01 |
Women's Royal
Army Corps
formed for basic training of women at WRAC
Centre, followed by employment training as an apprentice (RCT, Royal
Signals, etc.); women were assigned to units and housed in self-contained
accommodations, and armed for self-defense, but not employed in
direct combat |
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1950.03 |
ranks
normalised with male equivalents in Army |
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1992.04.06 |
disbanded,
and personnel dispersed to all other corps; major element amalgamated
with Royal Army Pay Corps, to form
Staff and Personnel Branch, Adjutant
General's Corps |
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WRAC
History (Association site) |
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Women
at War (BBC History Trail) |
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Women
at War (We Were There Exhibition) |
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Women
and the Military during World War One, by Joanna Bourke (BBC Wars
& Conflict) |
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Women's
Organisations, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great
War) |
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A.T.S.
Remembered, by Beryl Furey-King |
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Women
in War, by Peter N. Risbey. |
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Auxiliary
Territorial Service: A Helping Hand to the Army (Military Historical
Society West; Czech) |
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Women
in the Auxiliary Services, by Peter N. Risbey. |
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A.T.S.
Organisation, by Beryl Furey-King |
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A.T.S.
Royal Artillery Personnel, by Beryl Furey-King |
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Locations
of A.T.S. Units July 1945 (PRO WO33) |
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The
Women of the Special Operations Executive, by Andy Forbes |
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HQ and Depot: |
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Queen Elizabeth Park, Guildford, Surrey |
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Note: battle honours are not awarded to this corps.
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Note:
this corps does not carry Colours. |
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Badges: |
A laurel wreath
surmounted by a crown; within the wreath a lioness rampant. |
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Uniform: |
1949: bottle
green; facings: beech brown |
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Controller Commandant, ATS: |
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1941.07.19 |
Hon. Gen. HRH
Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, TD |
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Commandant-in-Chief, WRAC: |
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1949 |
HM
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother |
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Controller Commandant, WRAC: |
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1949.02.01 |
Hon. Gen. HRH
Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, TD |
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1965-1967 |
vacant |
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1967.02.28 |
Hon. Maj-Gen. HRH
Katharine, The Duchess of Kent, GCVO |
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Honorary Senior Controller, WRAC: |
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1949.02.01 |
HRH The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh,
LG, CI |
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Honorary Brigadier, WRAC: |
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1950? |
HRH The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh,
LG, CI [appointment relinquished 1952 upon accession
as HM Queen Elizabeth
II] |
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Deputy Controller Commandant, WRAC: |
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Brig. Dame Mary Railton, DBE |
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1967.05.04 |
Col. Lucy Myfanwy Davies, CBE |
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1977.11.04 |
Brig. Eileen Joan Nolan, CB |
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1984.11.05 |
Brig. Anne Field, CB [continued
1992 as Dep. Col. Cmdt. Adjutant General's
Corps] |
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Colonel Commandant, WRAC [1990-1992]: |
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1990.12.19 |
Gen. Sir Jeremy John George Mackenzie, KCB,
OBE, ADC [continued 1992 as Col. Cmdt. Adjutant
General's Corps] |
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Motto: |
Suaviter in modo,
fortiter in re |
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Nicknames: |
none |
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Anniversaries: |
Corps Day (1 Feb.) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick (1955):
Lass of Richmond Hill + Early One Morning (arr. J.B. MacDowell) |
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slow: Greensleeves
(arr. J.B. MacDowell) |
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Pipes (1960):
The Nut Brown Maiden |
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Musicians: |
ATS Band officially
recognised 1944, disbanded 1948?; WRAC Band formed 1949, became nucleus
of AGC Band 1992. |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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The Women's Royal Australian Army Corps
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New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps
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Regimental
Journal: |
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The lioness. semi-annual.
{website}
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Full Histories: |
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Birdwell, Shelford. The Women's Royal
Army Corps. London : Leo Cooper, 1977. ISBN: 0850520991 |
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Terry, Roy. Women in khaki : the story
of the British woman soldier. London : Columbus Books, 1988.
ISBN: 0862873215 |
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First World
War: |
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Colclough, Molly. Women's Legion,
1916-1920. London : Spearman, 1939. |
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Cowper, Julia Margaret. A short history
of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. London : Women's Royal
Army Corps Association, 1966. |
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Second World
War: |
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Bigland, Eileen. Britain's other army;
the story of the A.T.S. London : Nicholson & Watson,1946.
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Cavadini, Ada. This was the A.T.S.
London : D. Crisp, 1946. |
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Williams Burr, Pat. The wearing o'
the khaki. London : Excalibur Press of London, 1990. ISBN:
1872080898 (pbk) |
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Robinson, Vee ; Edmonds, Noel. Sisters
in arms. London : HarperCollins, 1996. ISBN: 0004720849 (pbk.)
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Dady, Margaret. A woman's war : life
in the ATS. Lewes : Book Guild, 1986. ISBN: 0863321828 |
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Gooding, Joan B. They gave us khaki
bloomers. London : Avon Books, 1996. ISBN: 1860332196 |
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Sherman, Margaret. No time for tears
in the A.T.S. London : G.G. Harrap, 1944. |
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Hall, Pat. What a way to win a war
: the story of No. 11 Coy MTC and 5-0-2 MAC, ATS, 1940-1945.
Tunbridge Wells : Midas Books, 1978. ISBN: 0859361365 |
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Cowper, J. M. The Auxiliary Territorial
Service. [London] : The War Office, 1949. |
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Kerr, Dorothy Brewer. The girls behind
the guns : with the ATS in World War II. London : R. Hale,
1990. ISBN: 0709041950 |
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Cotterell, Anthony. She walks in battledress;
the day's work in the A.T.S. London : Christophers, 1942. |
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Gwynne-Vaughan, H. C. I. (Helen Charlotte
Isabella Fraser). Service with the army. London, New
York : Hutchinson & Co., 1942. |
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Neill-Fraser, R. M. We serve.
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1942. |
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Wadge, D. Collett. Women in uniform.
London : S. Low, Marston, 1946. |
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Whateley, Leslie, Dame. As thoughts
survive. London : Hutchinson & Co., 1949 |
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Short Histories:
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Nicholson, Jenny. Kiss the girls good-bye.
London : Hutchinson, [ca. 1950] |
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Special Topics: |
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Walsh, R. R. (R. Raymond). Roll of
honour of the Auxilary Territorial Service (later re-named the WRAC)
: (covers the period from 1939 to 1947). Blackburn : T.H.C.L.,
1999.: ISBN: 0948494786 |
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Brayley, Martin ; Ingram, Richard. World
War II British women's uniforms : in colour photographs. Marlborough,
Wiltshire [England] : Crowood Press, 2001. (Europa militaria special
; no. 7) ISBN: 1861264755 |
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Manuscripts
and Archives: |
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Weber, Amy Moffet. The women's Auxiliary
Territorial Service : a phenomenon in the British armed forces.
Typescript. Dissertation: Thesis (M.A.)--DePaul University, 1999.
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Women's
Services, First World War (TNA Research Guides: Military Records
Information 74) |
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