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  • Conclusion

  • Jeremy A. Crang, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Sisters in Arms
    Published online:
    31 August 2020
    Print publication:
    03 September 2020, pp 235-247

  • Summary

    The conclusion explores how the wartime women’s auxiliary services represented a considerable gender advance for women, as well as a transformative experience for many servicewomen. But the women’s services did not achieve equality with their ‘parent’ services; across a wide spectrum of military life servicewomen were treated differently to their male counterparts. Perceptions of bravery could also be gendered and to illustrate this the book is rounded off by the story of WRNS officer Audrey Roche, who, in 1943, was mentioned in despatches for having helped save the life of a sailor at sea.