- Title:
- Trade badge, Assistant Physical Training Instructor, Women’s Royal Army Corps, issued after 1949
- Object name(s):
- trade badge
- Brief description:
- Trade badge, Assistant Physical Training Instructor, Women’s Royal Army Corps, issued after 1949. Gold embroidered crossed swords design on beech brown cloth. The Women’s Royal Army Corps (WRAC) was formed in 1949, absorbing the remaining members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and recruiting more women into the British Army. As time went on, the trades available to women in the Army increased to over 40 including clerks, dog handlers, intelligence analysts, PTIs and military police women.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Badges
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Soldier Gallery
- Object name:
- trade badge
- Object number:
- NAM. 2004-10-165-19-16
- Right type:
- Crown Copyright
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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