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Description: | 56 very good-humoured ms letters (330pp) written to her mother whilst serving with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 4 August 1917 - 18 September 1918, describing enthusiastically the nature of her training at Farnborough before she became one of the first women to be stationed in France (October 1917) where she worked as a clerk at the Base Headquarters of an unnamed unit on the Western Front, touching briefly on the duties and responsibilities she undertook but focusing mainly on news from home and her relationship with her fiancé as well as conveying her living conditions, leisure activities, impressions of her uniform and most of all expressing the pride she took in her work as a WAAC, whilst also hinting at changing attitudes towards morality and providing few but important references to her perceptions of gender equality (8 May 1918); with a photograph of her in uniform and a printed book (216pp) also written by her, entitled On Waactive Service' (no date, published privately), reiterating in further detail and more frankly the experiences she relates throughout her letters, providing an interesting insight into one aspect of women's work during the last years of the First World War.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-01-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Edwardes, M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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