Auxiliary Territorial Service

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. ^[1]

Abraham Wachner

Abraham (Abie) Wachner (15 August 1892 – 23 August 1950) was the 35th Mayor of Invercargill from 1942 to 1950.

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Abram Games

Abram Games (29 July 1914 in Whitechapel, London – 27 August 1996 in London) was a British graphic designer.

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Andy DeComyn

British artist and sculptor born Worcestershire, England in 1966.

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Anne Field

Brigadier Anne Field, CB, ADC Hon (née Hodgson; 4 April 1926 – 25 June 2011) was a senior British military officer.

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Anne Mueller

Dame Anne Elisabeth Mueller, DCB (15 October 1930 – 8 July 2000) was a British civil servant and academic.

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Anne Valery

Anne Valery (née Firth) (24 February 1926 – 29 April 2013) was an English screenwriter, author and actress noted for co-writing episodes for the BAFTA-nominated drama ''Tenko'' in the early 1980s.

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Anti-Aircraft Command (AA Command, or "Ack-Ack Command") was a British Army command of the Second World War that controlled the Territorial Army anti-aircraft artillery and searchlight formations and units defending the United Kingdom.

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Appointment with Venus

Appointment with Venus is a novel by Jerrard Tickell published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1951, leading to a British film adaptation the same year and a Danish film adaptation in 1962.

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Appointment with Venus (film)

Appointment with Venus is a 1951 film adaptation of the Jerrard Tickell novel of the same name.

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Army Kinematograph Service

The Army Kinematograph Service (AKS) was established by the British government in August 1941 to meet the increasing training and recreational needs of an army at war.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force and integrated element of the British Army.

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ATS

ATS may refer to.

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Austin K2/Y

The Austin K2/Y is a British heavy military ambulance that was used by all Commonwealth services during the Second World War.

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Australian Women's Army Service

The Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) was a non-medical women's service established in Australia during the Second World War.

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Battle of Bamber Bridge

The Battle of Bamber Bridge was an outbreak of racial violence and mutiny that began in the evening of 24 June 1943 among American servicemen stationed in the British village of Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.

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Beaumanor Hall

Beaumanor Hall is a stately home with a park in the small village of Woodhouse on the edge of the Charnwood Forest, near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England.

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Beba Idelson

Beba Idelson (בבה אידלסון, 14 November 1895 – 5 December 1975) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.

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Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter

Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, (12 August 1913 – 7 November 1979) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Bowerham Barracks

Bowerham Barracks was a military installation in Lancaster.

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Brenda Rawnsley

Brenda Mary Rawnsley, Mrs.

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Bridget Boland

Bridget Boland (13 March 1913 – 19 January 1988) was an Irish-British sceenwriter, playwright and novelist.

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Bridget Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland

Bridget Helen "Biddy" Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland CBE (27 July 1896–17 April 1982), also known as The Countess of Carlisle between 1918 and 1947, as Lady Monckton between 1947 and 1957, as The Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley between 1957 and 1965 and as The Dowager Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley between 1965 and 1982, was a British peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords, but is probably best remembered as the wartime commander of women's services in India.

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British Army during the Second World War

The British Army was, in 1939, a volunteer army, that introduced limited conscription in early 1939, and full conscription shortly after the declaration of war with Germany.

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Celia Whitelaw, Viscountess Whitelaw

Celia, Viscountess Whitelaw (1 January 1917 – 5 December 2011) was the wife of William “Willie” Whitelaw, MP, former Home Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and aide to Margaret Thatcher.

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Ceylon Defence Force

Ceylon Defence Force (CDF) was established in 1910 by the Ceylonese legislation Ceylon Defence Force Ordinance, which reformed the Ceylon Volunteer Force (CVF) that existed previously as the military reserve in the British Crown colony of Ceylon.

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Charles Granville Fortescue

Brigadier-General The Hon.

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Chateau Impney

Chateau Impney Hotel & Exhibition Centre is a Grade II* listed 19th-century house built in the style of an elaborate French château near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England.

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Chelsea Pensioner

A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, London.

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Cheltenham Ladies' College

Cheltenham Ladies' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

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Cherry Marshall

Cherry Marshall (25 July 1923 – 28 January 2006) was an English fashion model and agent, and non-fiction writer.

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Christian Fraser-Tytler

Christian Helen Fraser-Tytler (née Christian Helen Shairp) (23 August 1897 – 1 July 1995) was a member of the Scottish Landed gentry and a senior officer in Britain's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) during World War II.

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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is on Church Lane, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England.

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Civil Resettlement Units

Civil Resettlement Units, or CRUs, were a scheme created during the Second World War to help British Army servicemen who had been prisoners of war (POWs) to return to civilian life, and to help their families and communities to adjust to having them back.

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Clement Davies

Edward Clement Davies (19 February 1884 – 23 March 1962) was a Welsh politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956.

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Commandant (rank)

Commandant is a military or police rank.

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Concordia Scott

Sister Concordia Scott (1924 – 2014) was a Scottish sculptor and Benedictine nun, of the Minster Abbey community, Minster-in-Thanet, Kent.

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Connie Mark

Connie Mark, BEM, MBE (21 December 1923 – 3 June 2007) was a Jamaican medical secretary who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in the period following World War II.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Dad's Army (2016 film)

Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Dorothy Coke

Dorothy Josephine Coke (11 April 1897-1979) was an English artist notable for her work as a war artist on the British home front during the Second World War.

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Douglas Berneville-Claye

Douglas Webster St Aubyn Berneville-Claye (1917–1975), born Douglas Berneville Claye, was a British Nazi collaborator and member of the SS British Free Corps during the Second World War.

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Edith Clara Batho

Dr Edith Clara Batho (21 September 1895 – 21 January 1986) was Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHC) from 1945-1962.

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Education of the British royal family

The education of the British royal family has changed over time, reflecting shifting ideas about education of the aristocracy and the role of the monarchy in the United Kingdom.

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Edwin Alonzo Boyd

Edwin Alonzo Boyd (April 2, 1914 – May 17, 2002) was a Canadian bank robber and leader of the Boyd Gang.

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Eileen Adelaide Bruce

Eileen Adelaide Bruce (15 February 1905 Petersham, London – 1954/1955) was an English taxonomist and botanist.

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Eileen Nolan

Brigadier Eileen Joan Nolan (19 June 1920 – 29 December 2005) was a former Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC).

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Eliane Plewman

Éliane Sophie Plewman (6 December 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a British agent of Special Operations Executive (SOE) and member of the French Resistance working in the "MONK circuit" in occupied France during World War II.

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Elisabeth Kirkby

Elisabeth Wilma Kirkby (born 26 January 1921), alternatively Elizabeth Kirkby, is a retired English Australian politician, theatre and television actress, radio broadcaster, writer, public affairs commentator, producer, director and grazier.

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Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley

Elisabeth Charlotte Marie Rivers-Bulkeley (30 April 1924 - 19 December 2006) was a stockbroker.

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Elisheva Bikhovski

Elisheva Bikhovski (Элишева Быховски) (born Elizaveta Ivanovna Zhirkov (Елизавета Ивановна Жирков); September 20, 1888 – March 27, 1949) — was a Russian-Israeli poet, writer, literary critic and translator, often known simply by her adopted Biblical Hebrew name Elishéva.

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Elizabeth Eames

Elizabeth Eames (24 June 1918 – 20 September 2008) was a British archaeologist and scholar who specialised in the study of medieval tiles.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Ena Collymore-Woodstock

Ena Collymore-Woodstock, OD, MBE (born 10 September 1917) was a Jamaican solicitor and magistrate who throughout her career broke many barriers for women.

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English society

English society is the group behaviour of the English, how they organise themselves and make collective decisions.

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English Without Tears

English Without Tears is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Michael Wilding, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Lilli Palmer.

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Esme Langley

Esme Ross-Langley (née George, pseudonym Ann Bruce) (26 August 1919 Guisborough, Yorkshire – 20 August 1991 Hertfordshire, England), was a British writer, best known as the founder of the Minorities Research Group and Arena Three (magazine).

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Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940

The occupants of the Channel Islands became involved in European events of 1938–39 only as distant and worried listeners to the radio and readers of newspapers.

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Eve Poole

Eve Poole (born Eva Auerbach; 29 December 1924 – 26 December 1992) was a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Invercargill from 1983 until her death in 1992.

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Faith Brook

Faith Brook (16 February 1922 – 11 March 2012) was an English actress who appeared on stage, in films and on television, generally in upper-class roles.

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First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) (FANY (PRVC)) is a British independent all-female registered charity formed in 1907 and active in both nursing and intelligence work during the World Wars.

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Fort Widley

Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom.

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Geoff Barkway

Staff Sergeant Geoff Barkway DFM was a member of the Glider Pilot Regiment who achieved fame as the pilot of the third Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of 6 June 1944.

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Ghisha Koenig

Ghisha Koenig (8 December 1921 - 15 October 1993) was a British sculptor whose work focused on the work place, especially factories as a hub of human activity.

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GI Brides

GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love is a bestselling book by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, authors of The Sugar Girls.

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Goodenough College

Goodenough College is a postgraduate residence and educational trust on Mecklenburgh Square in Bloomsbury, central London, England.

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Great Ballard School

Great Ballard School is a co-educational independent school for children aged 2½ to 13 years.

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Hamilton Road Cemetery, Deal

Hamilton Road Cemetery is a combined municipal and military burial ground situated in the coastal town of Deal, Kent, in South East England.

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Hanstead Stud

The Hanstead Stud was a breeding farm in England for Arabian horses.

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Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE (née Fraser; 21 January 1879 – 26 August 1967) was a prominent English botanist and mycologist.

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Henrietta Barnett (WRAF officer)

Air Commandant Dame Mary Henrietta Barnett (1905–1985), known as Henrietta Barnett, was a senior officer of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF).

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Henry Lamb

Henry Taylor Lamb (21 June 1883 – 8 October 1960) was an Australian-born British painter.

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Higher Formation Insignia of the British Army

This page displays the formation signs of higher formations (above division) of the British Army during the First and Second World Wars, and after.

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History of feminism

The history of feminism is the chronological narrative of the movements and ideologies aimed at equal rights for women.

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History of Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru; The Party of Wales (often shortened to Plaid) originated in 1925 after a meeting held at that year's National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd).

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History of the British Army

The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and world wars.

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HMS Queen Emma

HMS Queen Emma was a commando troop ship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

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ISS Boddington

ISS Boddington is an installation of Information Systems & Services, an operating cluster of the Ministry of Defence.

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Jack Cohen (politician)

Major Sir Benn Jack Brunel Cohen KBE (5 October 1886 – 11 May 1965) was a British Conservative Party politician and campaigner on behalf of disabled people.

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Jack Lawson

John James Lawson, 1st Baron Lawson, PC (16 October 1881 – 3 August 1965) was a British trade unionist and a Labour politician.

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Jacqueline Nearne

Jacqueline Nearne MBE (27 May 1916 in Brighton, England – 15 August 1982 in London, England) was a secret agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

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Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge

Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge (born 20 July 1919) is an English writer on crime and magic who also worked as an art director in British-made films and as a bookseller.

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Jane Trefusis Forbes

Air Chief Commandant Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, Lady Watson-Watt, DBE (21 March 1899 – 18 June 1971), known as Jane Trefusis Forbes, was a businesswoman and the first director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (1939–43).

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Janet Ruth Bacon

Janet Ruth Bacon (26 October 1891 in Oxford – 25 January 1965) was the daughter of a barrister and was Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHC) from 1935-44.

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Jean Gilpin

Jean Gilpin (born c.1950) is a British television actress and voice-acting specialist.

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Jean Knox

Jean Marcia Montagu, Baroness Swaythling, CBE (née Leith-Marshall; 14 August 1908 – 13 December 1993), first married name Miller, second married name Knox, was Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service from July 1941 to October 1943.

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Jennifer Moyle

Jennifer Moyle (April 30, 1921 - August 1, 2016) was a biochemist who worked alongside Peter D. Mitchell and helped discover the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis.

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Jerri Mumford

Minnie "Jerri" Mumford (1909–2002) was a British-born Canadian WWII servicewoman.

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Jim Laker

James Charles Laker (9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986) was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey) from 1946 to 1959 and represented England in 46 test matches.

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Joan Bernard

Joan Constance Churchill Bernard, FRSA (6 April 1918 – 1 August 2012) was Principal of Trevelyan College, University of Durham from its foundation in 1966 to 1978.

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John Leonard (judge)

Sir Hamilton John Leonard (28 April 1926 – 10 August 2002) was an English barrister and judge, described as "one of the great criminal specialists of his generation".

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Joy Tamblin

Air Commodore Pamela Joy Tamblin, CB (11 January 1926 – 8 March 2015), known as Joy Tamblin, was a senior officer of the Royal Air Force.

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Julia Pirie

Julia Pirie (8 July 1918, Harbury, Warwickshire, England – 2 September 2008) was a British spy working for MI5 from the 1950s through her retirement in the 1990s.

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Julian Phelps Allan

Julian Phelps Allan, formerly Eva Dorothy Allan, OBE (1892–1996) was an English sculptor active between 1923 and 1960.

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Kenneth Widmerpool

Kenneth Widmerpool is a fictional character in Anthony Powell's novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, a 12-volume account of upper-class and bohemian life in Britain between 1920 and 1970.

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Krystyna Skarbek

Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, OBE, GM, Croix de guerre (1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville,Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved, 2012, p. 1.

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Lady Marion Chesham

Marion Caher Donoghue, Lady Chesham (1903-1973), was a prominent figure in Tanzanian politics during the 1950s and 1960s before her retirement in 1972.

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Lancaster PA278 disappearance

The Lancaster PA278 disappearance involved Avro Lancaster Mk.I PA278, "F for Freddie", operated by No. 103 Squadron RAF (103 Sqn) of Bomber Command just after the end of the Second World War.

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Leslie Whateley

Dame Leslie Violet Lucy Evelyn Whateley, DBE, TD (née Wood; first married name Balfour; 28 January 1899 – 4 July 1987) was a Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) during the Second World War.

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Linda McCullough Thew

Linda McCullough Thew (nee Summers, 13 April 1918 – 25 December 2013) was a British author.

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List of Allied propaganda films of World War II

During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption.

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List of British Empire corps of the Second World War

This is a list of corps serving within the armies of the British Empire during the Second World War.

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List of Dad's Army characters

This is a list of characters in the British television comedy series Dad's Army.

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List of fatal accidents and incidents involving Royal Air Force aircraft from 1945

Several fatal accidents and incidents involving military aircraft operated by the Royal Air Force have occurred since 1945.

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List of King's College London alumni

This list of King's College London alumni comprises notable graduates as well as non-graduate former, and current, students.

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List of notable surviving veterans of World War II

This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945).

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List of titles and honours of Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (born 21 April 1926) has held numerous titles and honours, both during and before her time as monarch of each of her Commonwealth realms.

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London District Signals

London District Signals was a headquarters signal unit of the Royal Engineers (RE) and later Royal Corps of Signals in Britain's Territorial Army from 1908.

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London Electrical Engineers

The London Electrical Engineers was a Volunteer unit of the British Army's Royal Engineers founded in 1897.

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Maisie Mosco

Maisie Mosco (7 December 1924 – 31 October 2011) was an English writer.

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Margaret Collingridge Wheeler

Margaret Collingridge Wheeler (1916–1990) was an Australian archaeologist who worked at Maiden Castle, Dorset with Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s and at Jericho with Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950s.

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Mary Adams (codebreaker)

Mary Adams (née Ritchie) (3 November 1922 – 12 July 2010) was a Scottish interceptor for Bletchley Park during World War II.

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Mary Colvin

Brigadier Dame Mary Katherine Rosamund Colvin (25 October 1907 – 23 September 1988) was a director of the British Army Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) and president of the British Horse Society.

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Mary Seacole

Mary Jane Seacole OM (née Grant; 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War.

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Mary Soames

Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, (née Spencer-Churchill; 15 September 1922 – 31 May 2014) was the youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine.

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Mary Tyrwhitt

Brigadier Dame Mary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt, DBE, TD (22 December 1903–18 March 1997) was a British Army officer.

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Military service by British royalty

This is a list detailing military service by British royalty, namely formal military service and not the honorary titles given to the members of the Royal Family.

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Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail.

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Mona Chalmers Watson

Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson CBE, (née Geddes; 31 May 1872 – 7 August 1936), known as Mona Chalmers Watson, was a Scottish physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.

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Nadia Cattouse

Nadia Evadne Cattouse (born 2 November 1924 in Belize City, British Honduras) is a Belizean-born British actress, singer and songwriter.

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Nancy Salmon

Air Commandant Dame Nancy Marion Salmon (2 May 1906 – 9 October 1999), also known after 1962 by her married name, Dame Nancy Marion Snagge, was a senior British women's air force leader.

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Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes

The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.

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Norman Sillman

Norman Henry Sillman, ARCA, FRBS (born 4 May 1921 in London, England- died 18 July 2013) was a British sculptor and a coin designer, including the one pound coins for the Royal Mint.

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Norwich School (independent school)

Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a selective English independent day school in the close of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich.

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Offley

Offley is a civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire, between Hitchin and Luton.

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Operation Backfire (World War II)

Operation Backfire was a military scientific operation during and after the Second World War, which was performed mainly by British staff.

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Operation Bullshine

Operation Bullshine is a 1959 British colour comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray and Carole Lesley.

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Pakefield Lighthouse

Pakefield Lighthouse is a decommissioned 19th century lighthouse which was built near Pakefield a suburb of Lowestoft in Suffolk.

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Pamela Frankau

Pamela Sydney Frankau (3 January 1908 – 8 June 1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family.

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Peggy Fortnum

Margaret Emily Noel Fortnum (23 December 1919 – 28 March 2016) as pen name Peggy Fortnum was an English illustrator best known for illustrating children's literature series Paddington Bear.

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Penelope Jessel

Dame Penelope Jessel DBE (2 January 1920–2 December 1996), was a British Liberal Party politician.

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Primrose Cumming

Primrose Cumming (1915–2004) was a British writer of children's books.

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Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793.

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Reginald Tyrwhitt

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet GCB, DSO (10 May 1870 – 30 May 1951) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Rex Woods (athlete)

Reginald ('Rex') Salisbury WoodsHousman Society Journal, collected vols.

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Robert Whittaker (British Army officer)

Major-General Robert Frederick Edward Whittaker, CB, CBE, TD, (18 June 1894 – 17 February 1967) was a City of London banker and a senior officer in Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA).

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Robin Guthrie (artist)

For the Scottish musician, Robin Guthrie, see Robin Guthrie Robin Craig Guthrie, (15 June 1902 – 27 January 1971) was a British artist.

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Rodrigo Moynihan

(Herbert George) Rodrigo Moynihan (17 October 1910 – 6 November 1990) was an English painter, credited with being a pioneer of abstract painting in England.

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Ronald Forbes Adam

General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet (30 October 1885 – 26 December 1982) was a senior British Army officer.

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Ronald Speirs

Lieutenant Colonel Ronald C. Speirs (20 April 1920 – 11 April 2007) was a United States Army officer who served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II.

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Royal Army Pay Corps

The Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) was the corps of the British Army responsible for administering all financial matters.

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Royal Hospital Chelsea

The Royal Hospital Chelsea, often called simply Chelsea Hospital, is a retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army.

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Sarah Winstedt

Sarah Mary Josephine Winstedt (née O'Flynn; 4 April 1886 – 9 September 1972) was an Irish-born physician, surgeon and suffragist.

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Sarum College

Sarum College is an ecumenical Christian institution in Salisbury, England.

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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).

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Searchlight Control radar

Searchlight Control, SLC for short but nicknamed "Elsie", was a British Army VHF-band radar system that provided aiming guidance to an attached searchlight.

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Silhouette (lingerie)

Silhouette is an English manufacturer of women’s lingerie.

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Simonne Mathieu

Simonne Mathieu (31 January 1908 – 7 January 1980) was a female tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine who was active in the 1930s.

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Slades Hill army camp

Slades Hill army camp was a Second World War British Army camp and anti-aircraft battery in Slades Hill, Enfield, London, that formed part of London's defences against attack by German bombers.

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Southsea Castle

Southsea Castle, historically also known as Chaderton Castle, South Castle and Portsea Castle, is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII on Portsea Island, Hampshire, in 1544.

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Spouse of the Governor-General of Australia

The spouse of the Governor-General of Australia generally assists the office-holder in welcoming ambassadors and their spouses, and in performing their other official duties.

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Sri Lanka Army

The Sri Lankan Army (Śrī Laṃkā yuddha hamudāva; Ilankai iraṇuvam) is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is the nation's army.

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St Llwchaiarn's Church, Llanllwchaiarn

St Llwchaiarn’s church, Llanllwchaiarn was the parish church of Llanllwchaiarn, now within the community of Newtown with Llanllwchaiarn and lies within the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Powys.

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St Lucia Barracks, Omagh

St Lucia Barracks, Omagh is a former military base in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

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St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch

St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch, is a small medieval parish church near the village of Llanbedrgoch in Anglesey, north Wales.

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Stars in Battledress

Stars in Battledress (SiB) was an organisation of entertainers who were members of the British Armed Forces during World War II.

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Stella Moray

Stella Moray (29 July 1923 in Ladywood, Birmingham, Warwickshire – 6 August 2006 in London) was an English character actress who appeared on stage, film and television in dramas, comedies and soap operas.

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Stella Schmolle

Stella Schmolle, (1908-5 March 1975) was a British painter, known for the paintings she produced while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II and for her post-war portrait paintings.

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Stewart Farrar

Frank Stewart Farrar (28 June 1916 – 7 February 2000), who always went by the name of Stewart Farrar, was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone as well.

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Stokenchurch War Memorial

Stokenchurch War Memorial is located outside the Memorial Hall, Wycombe Road, Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Subaltern

A subaltern is a primarily British military term for a junior officer.

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Susan Hibbert

Susan Nona Hibbert (née Heald; 21 May 1924 – 2 February 2009) was one of the secretaries who typed the English versions of the German surrender document at the conclusion of the Second World War.

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Teddy Gueritz

Rear Admiral Edward Findlay "Teddy" Gueritz, (8 September 1919 – 21 December 2008) was a long-serving Royal Navy officer.

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The Gentle Sex

The Gentle Sex is a 1943 British, black-and-white romantic comedy-drama war film directed and narrated by Leslie Howard.

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The Imitation Game (play)

The Imitation Game is a television play written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre, a BBC Play for Today, first broadcast on 26 April 1980.

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The Next of Kin

The Next of Kin, also known as Next of Kin, is a 1942 Second World War propaganda film produced by Ealing Studios.

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The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room, released in the United States as Hour of Glory, is a 1949 film by the British producer-writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack.

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The Square Peg

The Square Peg is a 1959 British war comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Norman Wisdom.

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The Test (Dad's Army)

The Test is the tenth episode of the fourth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on Friday 27 November 1970.

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Theresa Wallach

Theresa Wallach (30 April 1909 - 30 April 1999) was an adventure motorcyclist, engineer, mechanic and author.

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Tower House, Brighton

Tower House is a former private house in the Withdean area of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove.

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Ulster Defence Regiment

The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army established in 1970, with a comparatively short existence ending in 1992.

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Valerie Goulding

Valerie Hamilton, Hon.

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Verity Films

Verity Films was a British documentary film production company, founded by Sydney Box and Jay Gardner Lewis in March or May 1940.

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Violet Bathurst, Lady Apsley

Violet Emily Mildred Bathurst, Lady Apsley, CBE (née Meeking; 29 April 1895 – 19 January 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Violette Szabo

Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – February 1945) was a French/British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross.

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Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton

Walter Thomas Layton, 1st Baron Layton (15 March 1884 – 14 February 1966), was a British economist, editor, newspaper proprietor and Liberal Party politician.

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War Artists' Advisory Committee

The War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC), was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, with the aim of compiling a comprehensive artistic and documentary of the history of Britain throughout the war.

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War Dance (Dad's Army)

War Dance is the ninth episode of the third series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on Thursday 6 November 1969.

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War Office Selection Boards

War Office Selection Boards, or WOSBs, were a scheme devised by British Army psychiatrists during World War II to select potential officers for the British Army.

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Whateley

Whateley can refer to.

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William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary and de facto Deputy Prime Minister.

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Women Are Warriors

Women Are Warriors is a 14-minute 1942 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime Canada Carries On series, and dealt with women in war.

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Women in Bletchley Park

About 8,000 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.

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Women in the military

Since 1914, the role of women in the military has been controversial, particularly their role in combat.

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Women in the military by country

Recent history of changes in women's roles includes having women in the military in many countries.

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Women in the World Wars

In Great Britain just before World War I there were 24 million adult women and 1.7 million worked in domestic service, 800,000 worked in the textile manufacturing industry, 600,000 worked in the clothing trades, 500,000 worked in commerce, and 260,000 worked in local and national government, including teaching.

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Women in World War II

Women in World War II took on many different roles during the War, including as combatants and workers on the home front.

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Women's Army Corps

The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the United States Army.

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Women's Auxiliary Air Force

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), whose members were referred to as WAAFs, was the female auxiliary of the Royal Air Force during World War II, established in 1939.

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Women's Royal Army Corps

The Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC; sometimes pronounced acronymically as, a term unpopular with its members) was the corps to which all women in the British Army belonged from 1949 to 1992, except medical, dental and veterinary officers and chaplains (who belonged to the same corps as the men), the Ulster Defence Regiment which recruited women from 1973, and nurses (who belonged to Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps).

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Women's Royal Naval Service

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.

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World War II casualties

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in absolute terms of total casualties.

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WTS

WTS is an acronym for.

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Yvonne Rudellat

Yvonne Claire Rudellat MBE, Croix de Guerre, (née Cerneau, 11 January 1897 – 23 or 24 April 1945) was a member of the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II and was the first female SOE-trained agent to go to France.

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10th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 10th Anti-Aircraft Division (10th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.

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113th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

The 113th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (113th HAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery during World War II.

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11th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 11th Anti-Aircraft Division (11th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.

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12th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 12th Anti-Aircraft Division (12th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.

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14th Searchlight Battery (Finland)

14th Searchlight Battery (Finnish: 14. Valonheitinpatteri (14.Vh.Ptri)) was a Finnish anti-aircraft searchlight battery formed from women of the Lotta Svärd organization ("searchlight lottas", Finnish: valonheitinlotat) at the end of the Continuation War.

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1938 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1938 in the United Kingdom.

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1939 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1939 in the United Kingdom.

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1942 Birthday Honours

The King's Birthday Honours 1942 were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire.

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1945

This year also marks the end of the Second World War, the deadliest conflict in human history.

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1945 Birthday Honours

The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.

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1946 Birthday Honours

The 1946 King's Birthday Honours, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 13 June 1946 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.

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1947 New Year Honours

The 1947 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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1948 New Year Honours

The 1948 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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19th Battalion, London Regiment (St Pancras)

The 19th Battalion, London Regiment (St Pancras) was a Volunteer unit of the British Army in existence from 1860 to 1961 under various titles.

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1st Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 1st Anti-Aircraft Division (1st AA Division) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army before and during the early years of World War II.

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1st Manchester Rifles

The 1st Manchester Rifles, later the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited in and around Manchester.

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26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (26 AA Bde) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army during World War II.

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27th (Home Counties) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

27th (Home Counties) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (27 AA Bde) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army in World War II that served in The Blitz and later converted to infantry.

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28th (Thames and Medway) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

28th (Thames and Medway) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (28 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army created in 1925 to command anti-aircraft units in Kent and around the militarily important Medway Towns, which it defended during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz.

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2nd Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 2nd Anti-Aircraft Division (2nd AA Division) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army from 1935 to 1942.

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30th (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

The 30th (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army from 1936 until 1955, which defended Tyneside and Sunderland during World War II.

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31st (North Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

The 31st (North Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (31 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army from 1936 until 1948.

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32nd (Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

The 32nd (Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command in Britain's Territorial Army (TA) from 1936 to 1955, charged with defending the East Midlands of England.

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33rd (Western) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

The 33rd (Western) Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army, formed shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

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34th (South Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

The 34th (South Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (34 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command in the British Territorial Army formed shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

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35th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

35th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command in the British Territorial Army (TA) formed shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

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36th (Scottish) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

36th (Scottish) Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of World War II.

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37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed just before the outbreak of World War II.

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38th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 38th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade (38 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army formed just before World War II, which protected London and Southern England during The Blitz and later converted into an infantry formation for the liberation of Europe.

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39th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

39th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) during World War II.

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3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (3 AA Bde) was a Supplementary Reserve air defence formation of the British Army formed in Northern Ireland in 1938.

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3rd Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of World War II.

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40th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 40th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command in the British Territorial Army (TA) formed shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

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41st (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

The 41st (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (41 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command in the British Territorial Army, formed shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

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42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA).

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43rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

43rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA).

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44th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

44th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (44 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA).

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4th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 4th Anti-Aircraft Division (4th AA Division) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of World War II.

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50th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

50th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) during World War II.

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54th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 54th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed immediately before the outbreak of World War II.

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5th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 5th Anti-Aircraft Division (5th AA Division) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of World War II.

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6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (6 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of the British Army formed during World War II.

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6th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 6th Anti-Aircraft Division (6th AA Division) was an air defence formation created within Anti-Aircraft Command of Britain's Territorial Army just before World War II.

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79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

The 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (79th (HY) HAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA).

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7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment

The 7th (City of London) Battalion of the London Regiment was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1860 until 1961.

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7th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 7th Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.

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7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers

The 7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1908 until 1967.

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86th (Honourable Artillery Company) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

The 86th (Honourable Artillery Company) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (86th (HAC) HAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) that served throughout World War II.

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8th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 8th Anti-Aircraft Division (8th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.

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91st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

91st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (91st HAA Rgt) was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed in the West Riding of Yorkshire just before the outbreak of World War II.

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93rd Searchlight Regiment

93rd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery was an all-female British air defence unit during World War II, formed in October 1942 and disbanded in July 1945.

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9th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 9th Anti-Aircraft Division (9th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the middle years of World War II.

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Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Territorial_Service

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