This updated collection contains 570 records, sourced from TNA ADM 318, for those who served as Officers in the Women’s Royal Navy Service (WRNS) from 1917-1919.
Most records are handwritten in English on pre-printed forms. Records may include application forms, enrollment forms, certificates of identification, and officer’s forms.
Information from the sometimes over 100 imaged pages per record may include:
- Name, including maiden name if married
- Rank
- Birthplace
- Birth date
- Age
- Date and place of enlistment
- Date and place of discharge
- Nationality
- Residence
- Marital status
- Physical description
- Regiment
- Unit
- Names of family members
- Relationships to next of kin
- Addresses of next of kin
These records, and many more in ADM 318 and ADM 336, are accessible through the TNA Discovery catalogue
Great to see Ancestry are releasing much overlooked records that remind us that ladies played their part in the Great War.
Thank you for bringing these records to our attention