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• Women's War Services - An Exhibition

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918-02

  whole: the title and text occupy the whole, in black and in red, set against a white background and held within a black border. image: text only. text: Copy as printed. For information only [ink stamp] WOMEN'S WAR SERVICES WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS...

• Valve Testing: The Signal School, RN Barracks, Portsmouth

  (art) Made by: McCormick, Arthur David 1919

  image: Three Women's Royal Naval Service ratings are at work using communications equipment inside a room of a Royal Navy barracks. A WRNS officer stands talking to a Royal Navy officer behind them.

• WRNS Censoring Ships' Mail Portsmouth, 1944

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1944

  image: four women of the WRNS at work in an office censoring post. Three of the women work at desks, with the fourth standing at the back of the room beside a large wooden bow or stern decoration from an old Royal Navy ship incorporating a unicorn. The...

• WRNS and QARNNS: WRNS Boat Crew, Home Waters 1943; WRNS Motor Mechanic, Home Waters 1943; Nursing Sister, QARNNS Reserve, 1942

  (art) Made by: Baker, Alix 2001

  image: Three depictions of female naval personnel. On the left is a member of the WRNS Boat Crew, holding a rope and wearing a naval uniform consisting of a dark blue trouser suit and cap. In the centre is a WRNS Motor Mechanic wearing overalls and a...

• Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service : syringing the ear of a WRNS rating

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1944

  image: a Wren rating sitting side on with a cape tied round her neck and supporting a small dish on her left shoulder, is having her ear syringed by a QARNNS nurse, who stands next to her with the syringe in her ear. Another Wren looks on, sitting...

• WRNS Packing a Salvaged Float

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1942

  image: two Wrens at work packing a salvaged float, with various small circular components spread out on the table in front of them.

• WRNS Making Soup in the Galley

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1942

  image: two Wrens making soup in large cylindrical cooking vats with a few pots on the floor next to them. The foremost Wren has a bandage around her right hand.

• WRNS Rating Signalling to HM Ships at Sea

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1942

  image: two Wrens and a sailor, shown side on, standing on an open deck at a large signalling lamp, the foremost Wren consulting a book. The sea is visible in background with a few ships on the horizon.

• WRNS Issuing Grog to a Working Party

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1942

  image: a woman of the Women's Royal Naval Service dispenses the rum ration to seven queuing sailors, who gather around her eagerly.

• WRNS Working in Battery Sheds

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1942

  image: two Wrens in overalls standing and bending over, working in the interior of a shed amongst rows of large batteries and other equipment.