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Series

Air Ministry: Master General of Personnel and Director of Personnel: Airwomen's Records

Catalogue reference: AIR 80

What's it about?

AIR 80

This series contains service records for around 30,000 airwomen who served with the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) during the First World War. The records comprise handwritten and printed Certificates of Enrolment and Discharge for Airwomen....

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Reference

AIR 80

Title
Air Ministry: Master General of Personnel and Director of Personnel: Airwomen's Records
Date

1914-1918

Description

This series contains service records for around 30,000 airwomen who served with the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) during the First World War. The records comprise handwritten and printed Certificates of Enrolment and Discharge for Airwomen.

Digital copies of Women’s Royal Air Force service records 1918-1920 can be searched and downloaded.

Service records of WRAF officers are not known to survive.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The records are alphabetically arranged by surname.

Related material

For a name index to airmen's and airwomen's service records, see AIR 78

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

268 file(s)

Access conditions

Available in digital format unless otherwise stated

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15011/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

724,929 records

Within the department: AIR

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Air Ministry: Master General of Personnel and Director of Personnel: Airwomen's Records