Early services

Untrained naval nurses in the 18th and early 19th century
Crimea nurses in army and naval hospitals
Army Nursing Service
Naval Nursing Service

Medical Services in WW1

This section contains chapters on the following, including their postwar role
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service and Reserve
Territorial Force Nursing Service
Civil Hospital Reserve

Voluntary Aid Detachments
including
Nursing VADs
General Service VADs

Military and Naval Masseuses (early physiotherapists)
including
Almeric Paget (Military) Massage Corps
Military Massage Service
Naval Massage Service

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)

Medical women including
Women’s Hospital Corps and
women doctors employed with the Army, Navy and RAF

Lesser Known Services

RAF Nursing Service, later
Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service

Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service
established briefly as a separate army nursing service, 1921 to 1926

Indian Army Nursing Service, later
Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India

Women’s Auxiliary Services

From 1914, temporary women clerks joined the
Army Pay Department
and from 1915 catering, domestic workers and drivers were employed via the
Women’s Legion
These women, known as civilian subordinates, increasingly substituted for men.
This growing dependence on civilian labour led to the establishment of the
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Women’s Royal Naval Service
Women’s Royal Air Force

Land workers

The final section of the book details the role of women in the
Women’s Forage Corps
Women’s National Land Service Corps
Women’s Land Army