Women's Auxiliary Corps (India)

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The Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) (WAC(I)) was created in March 1942, out of the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma). By the end of the Second World War, it had recruited 11,500 women.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Personnel[edit]

Commonwealth Forces in India, Imam is second from left

Moina Imam, chief petty officer from Bihar, was among the first Indian girls to join the (WAC(I)) and became its poster girl.[7][8]

Gallery[edit]

  • Inspection by Field Marshal Auchinleck

    Inspection by Field Marshal Auchinleck

  • Inspection by Field Marshal Auchinleck

    Inspection by Field Marshal Auchinleck

  • Women Auxiliary Corps (India)

    Women Auxiliary Corps (India)

  • Women Auxiliary Corps parade

    Women Auxiliary Corps parade

  • Indian Women's Auxiliary Corps at Dagshai

    Indian Women's Auxiliary Corps at Dagshai

  • Private Begum Pasha Shah

    Private Begum Pasha Shah

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Harfield, Alan (2005). "The Women's Auxiliary Corps (India)". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 83 (335): 243–254. ISSN 0037-9700. JSTOR 44231211.
  2. ↑ Family Records gov uk Consortium. "FamilyRecords.gov.uk | Focus on... Women in Uniform | Women in World War II - Profile". FamilyRecords.gov.uk Consortium. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  3. ↑ Sen, Sudarshana (2017). "2. Anglo-Indian women". Anglo-Indian Women in Transition: Pride, Prejudice and Predicament. Singapore: Springer. p. 69. ISBN 978-981-10-4356-7.
  4. ↑ Perry, Frederick William (1988). "3. The Indian Army". The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organisation in Two World Wars. Manchester University Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-7190-2595-8.
  5. ↑ Vitali, V. (17 October 2019). "The Women's Royal Indian Naval Service: Picturing India's New Woman". Women's History Review. 29 (7): 1114–1148. doi:10.1080/09612025.2019.1674468. ISSN 0961-2025. S2CID 210364785.
  6. ↑ Mohanan, Kalesh (2020). The Royal Indian Navy: Trajectories, Transformations and the Transfer of Power. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge. pp. 94–96. ISBN 978-1-138-55495-5.
  7. ↑ James, Lawrence (18 July 2013). Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist. Orion. ISBN 978-0-297-86915-3.
  8. ↑ "Women's Royal Indian Naval Service established during WW2". Association of Wrens. 30 December 2019. Archived from the original on 13 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
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