Women's Royal Naval Service
Overview
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
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Members included cooks
Cooking
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, clerks, wireless telegraphist
Morse code
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s, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electrician
Electrician
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s and air mechanics. It was formed in 1917 during the First World War
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, and by the end of the war had 5,500 members, 500 of them officers. In addition, about 2000 members of the WRAF
Women's Royal Air Force
The Women's Royal Air Force was a women's branch of the Royal Air Force which existed in two separate incarnations.The first WRAF was an auxiliary organization of the Royal Air Force which was founded in 1918. The original intent of the WRAF was to provide female mechanics in order to free up men...
had previously served with the WRNS supporting the Royal Naval Air Service and were transferred on the creation of the Royal Air Force.
