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• Women's Royal Naval Service

  (posters) Made by: Dennys, Joyce (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a black border. The title is separate and positioned across the bottom edge, in blue outlined black, and in black. The text is separate and positioned across the bottom edge, in black. All set against a...

• Women Wanted Urgently

  (posters) Made by: Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (publisher/sponsor)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper third. The title is separate and positioned across the centre, in red. The text is separate and positioned in the lower two-thirds, in black. The title and text are set against a white background and held...

• WOMEN IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Naval official photographer

  New officer recruits to the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) officers, wearing a mix of civilian dress and uniform, undergo drill at Crystal Palace during the First World War.

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  Dame Katharine Furse, founder and director of the WRNS, (right), reads a letter as she sits at her desk with her secretary, Miss M Butcher (left).

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, LOWESTOFT, 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  A portrait of WRNS store-women at work, sorting ships' lamps in a storeroom at Lowestoft. One woman stands on the ground and hands a light to a second woman, who is standing on an upturned box so that she can hang the light with those already suspended...

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, CHATHAM

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P

  Bakers of the WRNS smile for the camera as they pose for the camera, loaves of bread 'at a slope' on their shoulders at the Royal Barracks, Chatham.

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, c 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  A WRNS motor driver smiles for the camera as she sits in the driving seat of an open-topped car. On the windscreen can be seen the letters 'RACM' and on the bonnet can be seen 'LT-5012'. It is possible that this photograph was taken at Lowestoft.

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P

  A member of the WRNS works on a drawing in the training department of the Signal School, Portsmouth.

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, c 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  A portrait of Miss Edith Crowdy, Deputy Director of the WRNS, at her desk.

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, OSEA ISLAND, ESSEX

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  Gardeners of the WRNS tend the garden outside the Officers’ Mess on Osea Island. Two of the women are using a lawn mower.