Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece

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Date:1943

Description:Photograph showing the WRENS working on a Hawker Hurricane at HMS Fledgling.

HMS Fledgling.
In April 1943 the Admiralty decided to release more men for wartime service, by training WRENS as aircraft mechanics, the large camp at Millmeece in Staffordshire was taken from the Ministry of Supply for this purpose, becoming the first purely WRNS technical training camp. The camp opened in 1943 - post World War Two it became HMS Cabbala which trained servicemen for civilian life, the camp closed in 1948.

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Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece

Photograph showing the WRENS working on a Hawker Hurricane at HMS Fledgling. HMS Fledgling. In ...

Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece

Photograph showing WRENS working on a Hawker Hurricane at HMS Fledgling at Mill Meece.

Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece

Photograph showing WRENS at "HMS Fledgling“. Brenda Vicary is the lady on the right hand image.

Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece

Photograph showing the WRENS working on a Hawker Hurricane at HMS Fledgling at Mill Meece. Caption ...

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Source: Staffordshire County Record Office

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