Queen's Army Schoolmistresses
Encyclopedia
The Queen's Army Schoolmistresses were female schoolteachers who assisted the Royal Army Educational Corps
and its predecessors in teaching the children of soldiers in British Army
garrison
schools. They were formed as the Army Schoolmistresses in 1848 and received the "Queen's" prefix in 1928. They were disbanded in 1970.
Royal Army Educational Corps
The Royal Army Educational Corps was a corps of the British Army tasked with educating and instructing personnel in a diverse range of skills...
and its predecessors in teaching the children of soldiers in British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
garrison
Garrison
Garrison is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base....
schools. They were formed as the Army Schoolmistresses in 1848 and received the "Queen's" prefix in 1928. They were disbanded in 1970.