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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

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ea80c776-ec53-31d2-8c97-1ac08e1650a9

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ea80c776-ec53-31d2-8c97-1ac08e1650a9, National Army Museum, CC BY-NC

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