Women at War

[Rob van Meel]

Hi,

Wasn't the private in the ATS called a volunteer and the sergeant a section leader, whereas the L/Cpl was chief volunteer, and the Cpl a sub-leader and the WO a senior leader?

The higher ranking officers: these ranks will have to wait as my memory is not that good anymore, as I am getting close to 50.

Chief Controller Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan was in charge of the ATS in the early years of the war. I do not recall her being replaced, so she may have served throughout WW 2.

On the Mechanised Transport Corps: all members, although they were volunteers and civilians, they had to pay an annula subscription of 10 shillings and 6 pence (half a guinea).
Cap, badges and buttons are copyright and remain the property of the Corps, possibly a reason why there are so few about. On the MTC: I have a small booklet in repro form, named Driver's manual. In the back is a rubber stamp dating this to May 1941.