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  • 2 - Organisation and Recruitment

  • Jeremy A. Crang, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Sisters in Arms
    Published online:
    31 August 2020
    Print publication:
    03 September 2020, pp 25-42

  • Summary

    This chapter begins with an overview of the wartime organisation of the WAAF, WRNS and ATS. It then moves on to a discussion of voluntary recruitment for these forces and the decision to introduce military conscription for women in 1941. It concludes with the findings of a government committee set up in 1942 under Violet Markham to inquire into the amenities and welfare conditions in the three women’s services. The committee also investigated rumours of immorality that plagued these forces (and the ATS in particular).