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Women's Royal Air Force
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Characters | Ali Smith | The titular story pursues the themes of discovery and the nature of love through a young woman's first sexual encounter with a female prostitute in Amsterdam. A Story of Folding and Unfolding has poignant... |
Education | Enid Bagnold | This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley
, mother of Aldous Huxley
and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward |
Employer | Christine Brooke-Rose | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SACD
's daughter Jean Lena Annette
(19121997) rose later to the rank of Air Commandant, to head the Women's Royal Air Force
, and to be made a Dame. In middle age she married and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ali Smith | |
Health | Ann Bridge | By the early 1960s AB
had had two coronaries. Her health had generally been good, though she had spent some months in 1943 flat on her back with a slipped disc, and after months of... |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She was the liaison between the ministry and the Women's Land Army
, Women's Legion
, Voluntary Aid Detachment
and others. In her practice as well as in memoranda to Lord Milner
, the Secretary... |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She had been dissatisfied with the coverage of the suffrage campaign by the daily newspapers, and she felt that a weekly journal was better equipped to give something of a considered opinion because writers would... |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | She said she got this assignment by accident: Someone had blundered and confused her with her cousin Barnard Darwin
, who was also a novelist. She was relieved to find, when she was somewhere in... |
Timeline
April 1918: The Women's Royal Air Force was established,...
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April 1918
The Women's Royal Air Force
was established, with Violet Douglas-Pennant
serving as its First Commandant, taking over from Gertrude Crawford
's tenure of less than a year.
1 April 1918: The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was founded...
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1 April 1918
The Women's Royal Air Force
(WRAF) was founded to employ those women who had worked at air stations during the First World War as members of the British naval or military female forces, the Women's...
28 June 1939: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was...
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28 June 1939
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established for duty with the all-male Royal Air Force
(RAF) in time of war. It was mobilized two months later, and in the Second World War gave a...
19 July 1940: Daphne Pearson, a corporal in the WAAF, became...
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19 July 1940
Daphne Pearson
, a corporal in the WAAF
, became the first woman to win the Empire Gallantry Medal, for rescuing a pilot from a crashed and burning plane.
1941: William Earl Johns, author of popular boys'...
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1941
William Earl Johns
, author of popular boys' adventure books about an airman called Biggles, introduced his female equivalent: Worrals of the W.A.A.F.
19 June 1941: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later...
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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...
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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)
.
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