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Military Orders and Medals, Single Campaign Medals, A Single British War Medal to Worker Grace Charlotte Horne, Queen Mary's Auxiliary Corps (4756 Wkr. G.C. Horn Q.M.A.A.C.), toned
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (1917–1918), later named the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (1918–1920), was the women's unit of the British Army during and immediately after the Great War.
It was formally instituted on 7 July, 1917 by Sir Neville Macready, the Adjutant General, who had appointed Dr Mona Chalmers Watson the first Chief Controller and senior officer. Over 57,000 women served between January 1917 and November 1918.
On 31 March 1917 women in the WAAC were first sent to the battlefields in France, just 14 cooks and waitresses. In 1918 women medical personnel were sent to the front in France.
The corps was disbanded in September 1921. After the German air raid in September 1940 which damaged the Army Records Office based in London most of the WAAC service records were destroyed. Worker Grace Horn's papers are amongst those that did not survive.
Sold with copied Medal Index card.
(20-40 GBP)
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (1917–1918), later named the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (1918–1920), was the women's unit of the British Army during and immediately after the Great War.
It was formally instituted on 7 July, 1917 by Sir Neville Macready, the Adjutant General, who had appointed Dr Mona Chalmers Watson the first Chief Controller and senior officer. Over 57,000 women served between January 1917 and November 1918.
On 31 March 1917 women in the WAAC were first sent to the battlefields in France, just 14 cooks and waitresses. In 1918 women medical personnel were sent to the front in France.
The corps was disbanded in September 1921. After the German air raid in September 1940 which damaged the Army Records Office based in London most of the WAAC service records were destroyed. Worker Grace Horn's papers are amongst those that did not survive.
Sold with copied Medal Index card.
(20-40 GBP)