Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece

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Date:1943

Description:A group of WRENS at HMS Fledgling E-15, Mill Meece. Mrs Chrys Hill (nee Wood), is sitting in the front row third in from the right.

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

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Image courtesy of: Mrs Veronica Wallace

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