Where can I get more information on the Women's Royal Army Corps?

Question

I used to live next door to a lady who was a former WRAC in the 1950s/60s. She was a commissioned officer, reached the rank of Captain before resigning to get married (I'm sorry I don't recall much more than that) and once showed me a photograph of herself back in the day with her future husband.

My neighbour passed away some years ago, her possessions divided amongst relatives, and I sorely regret not asking her more when she was alive as I've since developed an interest in British military history, especially women in the forces prior to the restructuring of the British Army in the early 90s. I was wondering where I could find a website or some sort where I can track down her old regiment and/or displaying the old WRAC uniforms.

Answer 1

http://www.junobeach.org/e/4/can-tac-cwa-e.htm



http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/disp/dis005_e.html



One of the best places would be at the Canadian War Museum:

(CWM):



[e-mail]



General information: [phone] or 1-800-555-5621



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Women's

Royal Army Corps

[and predecessors]



ATS crest and tie

by A. Melville-Brown WRAC crest and tie

by A. Melville-Brown United Kingdom







Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels Biography & Gallantry Awards

Traditions

Alliances

Associations, Forums, Re-Enactors

Museums, Monuments, Memorials

Bibliography









How to find information about individuals who served in this corps









1915.03

Women's Legion

formed as a non-military volunteer corps to support catering and ambulance driving services

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

1918.04.09 Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps

(named for Queen Mary)

1919 disbanded

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

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

1950.03 ranks normalised with male equivalents in Army

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











WRAC History (Association site)

Women at War (BBC History Trail)

Women at War (We Were There Exhibition)

Women and the Military during World War One, by Joanna Bourke (BBC Wars & Conflict)

Women's Organisations, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)

A.T.S. Remembered, by Beryl Furey-King

Women in War, by Peter N. Risbey.

Auxiliary Territorial Service: A Helping Hand to the Army (Military Historical Society West; Czech)

Women in the Auxiliary Services, by Peter N. Risbey.

A.T.S. Organisation, by Beryl Furey-King

A.T.S. Royal Artillery Personnel, by Beryl Furey-King

Locations of A.T.S. Units July 1945 (PRO WO33)

The Women of the Special Operations Executive, by Andy Forbes



HQ and Depot:

Queen Elizabeth Park, Guildford, Surrey













Note: battle honours are not awarded to this corps.













Note: this corps does not carry Colours.











Badges: A laurel wreath surmounted by a crown; within the wreath a lioness rampant.

Uniform: 1949: bottle green; facings: beech brown

A.T.S. Service Dress, by Beryl Furey-King

A.T.S. Battle Dress, by Beryl Furey-King

A.T.S. Kit, by Beryl Furey-King

A.T.S. Insignia, by Beryl Furey-King

A.T.S. Badges of Rank, by Beryl Furey-King



















Controller Commandant, ATS:

1941.07.19 Hon. Gen. HRH Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, TD



Commandant-in-Chief, WRAC:

1949 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother



Controller Commandant, WRAC:

1949.02.01 Hon. Gen. HRH Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, TD

1965-1967 vacant

1967.02.28 Hon. Maj-Gen. HRH Katharine, The Duchess of Kent, GCVO



Honorary Senior Controller, WRAC:

1949.02.01 HRH The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, LG, CI

Honorary Brigadier, WRAC:

1950? HRH The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, LG, CI [appointment relinquished 1952 upon accession as HM Queen Elizabeth II]











Deputy Controller Commandant, WRAC:

Brig. Dame Mary Railton, DBE

1967.05.04 Col. Lucy Myfanwy Davies, CBE

1977.11.04 Brig. Eileen Joan Nolan, CB

1984.11.05 Brig. Anne Field, CB [continued 1992 as Dep. Col. Cmdt. Adjutant General's Corps]



Colonel Commandant, WRAC [1990-1992]:

1990.12.19 Gen. Sir Jeremy John George Mackenzie, KCB, OBE, ADC [continued 1992 as Col. Cmdt. Adjutant General's Corps]











SOE Agents, by Andy Forbes











Motto: Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re

Nicknames: none

Anniversaries: Corps Day (1 Feb.)

Freedoms:

Marches: quick (1955): Lass of Richmond Hill + Early One Morning (arr. J.B. MacDowell)

slow: Greensleeves (arr. J.B. MacDowell)

Pipes (1960): The Nut Brown Maiden

Musicians: ATS Band officially recognised 1944, disbanded 1948?; WRAC Band formed 1949, became nucleus of AGC Band 1992.

Mascot:

Miscellaneous Tradition Links:













Canadian Women's Army Corps

The Women's Royal Australian Army Corps

New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps











WRAC Association

Royal Artillery Association AA Command, ATS Members

Women's Royal Army Corps [unofficial association]

WRAC Association Winchester Branch

Re-enactment group ATS/VHK (Vereniging Historische Militaria, Netherlands)











Adjutant General's Corps Museum Collection, Winchester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

WRAC Collection, National Army Museum, London (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

The Women of the Special Operations Executive - The Memorials, by Andy Forbes











Regimental Journal:

The lioness. semi-annual. {website}



Full Histories:

Birdwell, Shelford. The Women's Royal Army Corps. London : Leo Cooper, 1977. ISBN: 0850520991

Terry, Roy. Women in khaki : the story of the British woman soldier. London : Columbus Books, 1988. ISBN: 0862873215



First World War:

Colclough, Molly. Women's Legion, 1916-1920. London : Spearman, 1939.

Cowper, Julia Margaret. A short history of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. London : Women's Royal Army Corps Association, 1966.



Second World War:

Bigland, Eileen. Britain's other army; the story of the A.T.S. London : Nicholson & Watson,1946.

Cavadini, Ada. This was the A.T.S. London : D. Crisp, 1946.

Williams Burr, Pat. The wearing o' the khaki. London : Excalibur Press of London, 1990. ISBN: 1872080898 (pbk)

Robinson, Vee ; Edmonds, Noel. Sisters in arms. London : HarperCollins, 1996. ISBN: 0004720849 (pbk.)

Dady, Margaret. A woman's war : life in the ATS. Lewes : Book Guild, 1986. ISBN: 0863321828

Gooding, Joan B. They gave us khaki bloomers. London : Avon Books, 1996. ISBN: 1860332196

Sherman, Margaret. No time for tears in the A.T.S. London : G.G. Harrap, 1944.

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

Cowper, J. M. The Auxiliary Territorial Service. [London] : The War Office, 1949.

Kerr, Dorothy Brewer. The girls behind the guns : with the ATS in World War II. London : R. Hale, 1990. ISBN: 0709041950

Cotterell, Anthony. She walks in battledress; the day's work in the A.T.S. London : Christophers, 1942.

Gwynne-Vaughan, H. C. I. (Helen Charlotte Isabella Fraser). Service with the army. London, New York : Hutchinson & Co., 1942.

Neill-Fraser, R. M. We serve. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1942.

Wadge, D. Collett. Women in uniform. London : S. Low, Marston, 1946.

Whateley, Leslie, Dame. As thoughts survive. London : Hutchinson & Co., 1949



Short Histories:

Nicholson, Jenny. Kiss the girls good-bye. London : Hutchinson, [ca. 1950]



Special Topics:

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

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



Manuscripts and Archives:

Weber, Amy Moffet. The women's Auxiliary Territorial Service : a phenomenon in the British armed forces. Typescript. Dissertation: Thesis (M.A.)--DePaul University, 1999.

Women's Services, First World War (TNA Research Guides: Military Records Information 74)