Lives of the First World War

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ID: 7951792

Reference: WO398

Title: British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) 1917-1920

Description: These are the service records of more than 7,000 women who joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) between 1917 and 1920. These records are held in series WO 398. The WAAC became the QMAAC in April 1918 and was disbanded in September 1921.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7227575
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UPP: GBM/WO398/TNA/000003380

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8953763

Name: Great niece Laura Albins in the Guardian 10/11/2014

Title: Women during WW1

Description: "Jane Ann Jones joined the Women’s Auxiliary Corps in 1917 aged 21 and worked in a Chateau sending messages back to England. Her daughter recorded some of her wartime memories, in this extract she describes what it was like working in an office full of men."

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URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/guardianwitness-blog/2014/nov/10/-sp-women-first-world-war-readers-stories-photos-memories
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Additional: Matches full name and details of Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

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ID: 9401356

Title: Jane Ann Jones

Description: This photograph was taken when Jane Anne Jones (Jenny) was in the WAACs in the First World War. She was an administrator first for the Military Police in Aldershot and then she was moved to France in 1918/19 where she took charge of the office in Calais dealing with supplies for Flanders and the Western Front. For her work, she was awarded the OBE (M).

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594344

Title: Jane Ann Jones, 1917

Description: With colleagues, i think it is Aldershot

Connected by: Laura145297

Additional: My great aunt

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ID: 9594580

Title: Interview part 1

Description: Part 1 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594582

Title: Interview part 2

Description: Part 2 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594594

Title: Interview part 3

Description: Part 3 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594600

Title: Interview part 4

Description: Part 4 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594603

Title: Interview part 5

Description: Part 5 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594605

Title: Interview part 6

Description: Part 6 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594609

Title: Interview part 7

Description: Part 7 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594613

Title: Interview part 8

Description: Part 8 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594618

Title: Interview part 9

Description: Part 9 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594621

Title: Interview part 10

Description: Part 10 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594624

Title: Interview part 11

Description: Part 11 of interview with J A Jones

Connected by: Laura145297

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ID: 9594631

Title: J A Jones (right) with friend

Description: J A Jones during WW1

Connected by: Laura145297