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|birth_date = 9 April 1924
|birth_place = [[Bihar]]
|death_date = 7 March 1988
|death_place = [[Hammond, Illinois|Hammond]], Illinois
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|allegiance = {{flagicon|British Raj}} [[British India]] (1945)
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'''Moina Lillian Imam''', later '''Moina Furlong''' (9 April 1924 - 7 March 1988), was [[chief petty officer#India|chief petty officer]] from [[Bihar]] and was among the first Indian girls to join the Indian [[Women's Auxiliary Corps (India)|Women's Auxiliary Corps]] W.A.C., where she became its poster girl. She died on 7 March 1988 in [[Hammond, Illinois|Hammond]], Illinois.<ref name=James>{{cite book |last1=James |first1=Lawrence |title=Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist |date=18 July 2013 |publisher=Orion |isbn=978-0-297-86915-3 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Churchill_and_Empire/xrs-Aabpw0oC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Moina+Imam&pg=PA32&printsec=frontcover|language=en}}</ref><ref name=WRIN>{{cite web |title=Women’s Royal Indian Naval Service established during WW2 |url=https://wrens.org.uk/womens-royal-indian-naval-service-established-during-ww2/ |website=Association of Wrens |access-date=13 November 2022 |date=30 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113063040/https://wrens.org.uk/womens-royal-indian-naval-service-established-during-ww2/|archive-date=13 November 2022}}</ref><ref name=II1945>{{cite book |title=Indian Information |date=1945 |page=730 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Indian_Information/xQknAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Moina+imam&dq=Moina+imam&printsec=frontcover |language=en|quote=Chief Petty Officer Moina Imam from Bihar were among the first Indian girls to join W.A.C.}}</ref><ref name=Collins>{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=D. J. E. |title=The Royal Indian Navy 1939-45 |date=1964 |publisher=Orient Longmans |page=223 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-royal-indian-navy-1939-45/page/n259/mode/2up?q=moina}}</ref><ref name=Obit1988>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Furlong. Moina. "Mona" |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/101827765/person/190012528699/media/b59f68ce-c448-4d60-ae20-dd07974fa8ed?_phsrc=Ktl4&_phstart=successSource |access-date=13 November 2022 |work=The Times |date=3 March 1988 |location=Munster, Indiana|via=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Pass1946">{{cite web |title=List or manifest of alien passengers for the US |url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LTW9-KVB/moina-lillian-imam-1924-1988 |access-date=13 November 2022 |date=30 May 1946|via=ancestors.familysearch|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Vitali2019>{{cite journal |last1=Vitali |first1=V. |title=The Women’s Royal Indian Naval Service: Picturing India’s New Woman |journal=Women's History Review |date=17 October 2019 |volume=29 |issue=7 |pages=1114–1148 |url=https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/871qw |language=en |issn=0961-2025}}</ref>
[[File:Commonwealth Forces in India IND4410.jpg|thumb|Commonwealth Forces in India, Imam is second from left]]

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