Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps

Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Cap Badge: WAAC and QMAAC
ActiveMarch 1917–April 1918: Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
April 1918–Sept 1921: Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeWomen's administrative corps
Size57,000 passed through corps
Commanders
Ceremonial chiefQueen Mary (Patron)
QMAACs marching in London at the end of World War I, 1918
QMAAC tug-o-war team at the New Zealand Infantry and General Base Depot, Etaples, France, August 1918

The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC) from 9 April 1918, was the women's corps of the British Army during and immediately after the First World War.[1] It was established in February 1917 and disbanded on 27 September 1921.

  1. ^ Pennington, Reina (2003). Amazons to Fighter Pilots - A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (Volume 2). Westpoint, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 464–465. ISBN 0-313-29197-7.