Women's Royal Naval Service
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The Women's Royal Naval Service was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the beginning
A 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.
Second World War recruitment poster
A Mark 2 Colossus computer operated by Wrens.
QF 2-pounder naval gun
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The 2-pounder gun, officially the QF 2-pounder and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 40 mm British autocannon, used as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy. The name came from the sound that t
Women's Royal Naval Service
…A 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 Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United…
Quadruple 2 pdr MK VIII guns on Mk.VII mounting aboard HMAS Nizam August 1941
Australian troops with a QF 1-pounder Maxim auto cannon captured from the Boers
Posed photo of Mk II guarding a train against air attack, Mesopotamia, 1918
Gunners on HMCS Assiniboine fire their 2 pdr while escorting a troop convoy from Halifax to Britain, 10 July 1940.