Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
- Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
The UK's Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (1917–1918) was later named Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (1918–1920). Over 57,000 women served between January 1917 and November 1918. The corps was disbanded in September 1921.
After a German air raid in September 1940 most of the service records did not survive. Those which did have suffered fire, water and mould damage. The National Archives in Kew, Surrey, digitised these to prevent further damage and they can be searched and viewed online. The last WAAC veteran was Gladys Powers, who died in 2008.
External links
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/waac.asp Women's (later Queen Mary's) Army Auxiliary Corps (1917-1920) - DocumentsOnline research guide]
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=16&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1 DocumentsOnline searchable service record collection]
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