Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Women's Royal Army Corps
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Employer | Gwen Moffat | Having left school during the second world war, Gwen Goddard worked briefly in a newspaper office, then joined the Women's Land Army
. This work, however, did not appeal to her. After eighteen months she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Frankau | Her next erotic involvement after Humbert Wolfe was with a woman, a fellow officer in the ATS
and a Roman Catholic. |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. M. Hull | EMH
had one child: a daughter, whom she and her husband named Cecil W. Hull
—supposedly because they had wanted a son, though Cecil had been not uncommon as a girl's name. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Occupation | Barbara Cartland | BC
became an Honorary Junior Commander with the Auxiliary Territorial Service
(ATS
or women's army). Till the end of the war she also served as Chief Lady Welfare Officer in her home county of Bedfordshire. Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. 112 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 74 |
Occupation | Pamela Frankau | During the Second World War, PF
first worked with the Ministry of Food
, then joined the ATS
in February 1942 and rose from private to major, having trained at the Officer Cadet Training Unit |
Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | Here RF
deals with her later travels—between 1935 and 1945—and her wartime lecturing career. She opens by very briefly conjuring her own exotically mixed heritage. A long and entertaining catalogue of places visited, adventures undergone... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gwen Moffat | This book describes life in the women's army
and GM
's early, rackety non-army experiences, like milking cows and steering a sailing ship as the only sober member of the crew. Most vivid of all... |
Timeline
9 September 1938
The ATS
(Auxiliary Territorial Service, later the Women's Royal Army Corps
) was formed by direct order of the king, George VI
.
19 June 1941
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force
(WAAF, later the Women's Royal Air Force) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service
(ATS, later the Women's Royal Army Corps) were granted military status.
19 June 1941
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force
(WAAF, later the Women's Royal Air Force) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service
(ATS, later the Women's Royal Army Corps) were granted military status.
By 1943
443,000 women staffed the Auxiliary Territorial Service(ATS)
, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force(WAAF)
, and the Women's Royal Navy Service(WRNS)
.
January 1945
Princess Elizabeth
received training in the operation and maintenance of vehicles while part of the Auxiliary Territorial Service
.
1 February 1949