In addition, 2,867 Wrens, 46 officers and 2,821 other ranks who had previously supported the Royal Naval Air Service chose to be transferred to the RAF Royal Air Force.
By the end of the war the service had 5,500 members, 500 of them officers. On 10 October 1918, nineteen-year-old Josephine Carr from Cork became the first Wren to die on active service, when her ship, the RMS Leinster was torpedoed. The WRNS was formed in 1917 during the First World War. WRNS included cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electricians and air mechanics. First formed in 1917 for the First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War, remaining active until integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993. The Women's Royal Naval Service ( WRNS popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. For other uses, see Wren (disambiguation).Ī WRNS rating during the Second World War Two Ordnance Wrens in Liverpool reassemble a section of a pom-pom gun during the Second World War.
The rank insignia of commissioned officers."WRENS" redirects here. The following table show comparative officer ranks of World War II, with the ranks of Allied powers, the major Axis powers and various other countries and co-belligerents during World War II. For more detailed rank information, see relevant national rank pages.
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