Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
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. It was established in February 1917 and disbanded on 27 September 1921.
Cap Badge: WAAC and QMAAC
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
Recruitment poster
Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson CBE,, known as Mona Chalmers Watson, was a British physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The first woman to receive an MD from the University of Edinburgh, she helped found the Elsie Inglis Hospital for Women, was the first president of the Edinburgh Women's Citizen Association, a staff physician and later senior physician at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, and co-edited the Encyclopaedia Medica with her husband, Douglas Chalmers Watson. At the time of her death in 1936, she was president of the Medical Women's Federation, having been elected May 1935.
Chalmers Watson in Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps uniform
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France during the First World War.
WAACs marching in London, 1918