Transcript Women`s royal navy service

Women’s royal navy service
This woman belongs to WRNS. She is anchoring the boat she
was using to transport goods and mail.
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.
This uniform belonged to
Adelaide Sinclair. Director of
the women’s royal Canadian
navel service.
Adelaide Sinclair like
many women was a
member of the royal
navy union. Many knew
Adelaide as the
commander.
These are
women getting
aboard the ship
to join the
service.
There was close
to 7,000 women
enlisted to join
the navel service.
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.
These women are loading a torpedo to put into a submarine.
The WRNS took over shore-based jobs, freeing men for
service at sea.
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.”
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.
This is the WRNS recruit
learning the semaphore on
Somes Island during WW1
Wrens signaling Morse
code instructions with
Aldis lamp.
A telegraphist of the Women’s
Royal Australian Naval Service
These are just some of the women who
Signed up for WRNS.
Members of the women's Naval
Services, at signaling training,
during World War I
This is a propaganda poster encouraging
women to join WRNS
Another propaganda poster
telling women to join the
WRNS.
Propaganda poster letting women know
they need women.
Work cited
• http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/HU053322.html
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/navy/galerye.aspx?section=2-E-1-b&id=20
• http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/japan-bombspearl-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://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/Oral_History/Women_in_the_W
ar/Wrns/wrns_index.htm
• http://website.lineone.net/~remosliema/Wrens.htm