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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....

Full description and record details

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

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Within the department: AIR

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