WRACs at Stafford Station

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Date:14th of June 1952

Description:Members of "B " Company W.R.A.C., Stafford, with their officer, Lieutenant D. Prior (centre, back row) waiting for their train at Stafford station for their annual fortnight's Summer camp at Burscough, Lancashire. The WRAC was formed on 1 February 1949 and existed until 1992. It was the successor to the Auxiliary Training Service which had been set up in 1938 for women members of the British Army for the duration of World War II.

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