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Great Britain. Royal Navy. Women's Royal Naval Service (1917-1919)

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Corporate name headingGreat Britain. Royal Navy. Women's Royal Naval Service (1917-1919)
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Variant(s)WRNS (1917-1919)
W.R.N.S. (1917-1919)
Wrens (1917-1919)
Great Britain. Royal Navy. Women's Royal Naval Service
Beginning date1917
Ending date1919
Found inFletcher, M.E. The WRNS, 1989: t.p. (in subtitle: Women's Royal Naval Service) p. 11, etc. ([Great Britain]; formed 1917; disbanded end of WW1; became perm. and integral part of Royal Navy 2/1/1949)
Wikipedia, October 29, 2018: Women's Royal Naval Service article (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. First formed in 1917 for the First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War, remaining active until integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993)