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1 Women’s royal navy service

2 This woman belongs to WRNS. She is anchoring the boat she was using to transport goods and mail.

3 In the picture above is shown a group photograph of the last Wrens to take part in the women’s royal naval service training course. It was held at the royal naval college in Greenwich.

4 This uniform belonged to Adelaide Sinclair. Director of the women’s royal Canadian navel service.

5 Adelaide Sinclair like many women was a member of the royal navy union. Many knew Adelaide as the commander.

6 These are women getting aboard the ship to join the service. There was close to 7,000 women enlisted to join the navel service.

7 Want to join the WRNS? Well this is how it was advertised for the women to join. These posters encouraged women to come in and apply.

8 These women are loading a torpedo to put into a submarine. The WRNS took over shore-based jobs, freeing men for service at sea.

9 A Wren takes aim at a home front at a Scottish royal air force base. Some 72,000 would join wrens to free Britain sailors for combat duty.”

10 This is the office that the women in war could go to in order to see what they can do for the war. Many women came into this office to see what they could do.

11 This is the WRNS recruit learning the semaphore on Somes Island during WW1

12 Wrens signaling Morse code instructions with Aldis lamp.

13 A telegraphist of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service

14 These are just some of the women who Signed up for WRNS.

15 Members of the women's Naval Services, at signaling training, during World War I

16 This is a propaganda poster encouraging women to join WRNS

17 Another propaganda poster telling women to join the WRNS.

18 Propaganda poster letting women know they need women.

19 Work cited http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/HU053322.html http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/navy/galery- e.aspx?section=2-E-1-b&id=20http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/navy/galery- e.aspx?section=2-E-1-b&id=20 http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/japan-bombs- pearl-harbor.htm/printablehttp://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/japan-bombs- pearl-harbor.htm/printable http://www.cracktwo.com/2009/10/wwii-women-in-fight.html http://warphotos.basnetworks.net/world_war_two/royal_canadi an_navy/203/commander_adelaide_sinclair/http://warphotos.basnetworks.net/world_war_two/royal_canadi an_navy/203/commander_adelaide_sinclair/ http://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/Oral_History/Women_in_the_W ar/Wrns/wrns_index.htmhttp://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/Oral_History/Women_in_the_W ar/Wrns/wrns_index.htm http://website.lineone.net/~remosliema/Wrens.htm


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