The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917,
re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines
for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of
the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn
the influence it had on its members. Hannah Roberts offers new
insights into a previously little studied British military
institution, which celebrates its centenary in 2017. She shows how
political and military decision-making within the fluctuating
national security situation, coupled with a growing cultural
acceptability of women taking on military roles, allowed for the
growth of the service in World War II into realms never expected of
women. Although it shared a similar pattern in its formation to the
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and had a similar ethos to its
Air Force counterpart, the WAAF, the WRNS took on a wider-ranging
role in the war, in part due to the latitude afforded to the
service because of its uniquely independent origins. From 1941
onward the WRNS spread internationally and subverted the combat
taboo by adopting semi-combatant roles. Using twenty-one new oral
histories and a multitude of archived personal documents, this book
demonstrates the pivotal importance of the Women's Royal Naval
Service in both the world wars.
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