Pen and Sword Books: Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors by Mary Ingham

Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors (4 reviews)
Mary Ingham
Found in: Family History Books
Series: Tracing your Ancestors
Paperback 224 pages
ISBN: 9781848841734

Published: 19 April 2012

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Whether you are interested in the career of an individual service woman or just want to know more about the part played by service women in a particular war or campaign, this is the book for you. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of service women, Mary Ingham explains which records survive, where they can be found and how they can help in your research. She also vividly describes the role of women with the armed services from the Crimean War of the 1850s to the aftermath of the First World War and offers an insight into what the records can tell you about the career of an ancestor who served at home or abroad.

From the army schoolmistresses to the Women's Land Army, including British army, naval, air force and Indian army nursing services, the FANY, VADs, women doctors and the Women's Legion, her account outlines the origins and history of each service, describes uniforms and gives examples of daily life and likely experiences. This is the book you need if you want to follow up those clues in your family’s history – stories heard from older relatives, pictures in family photograph albums, handed-down uniforms, badges or medals that seem to indicate that one of your women ancestors served in wartime.

For centuries, women associated with the British Army as camp followers and soldier’s wives, but it was in the 19th century that they began to have an official role, firstly as schoolmistresses and nurses, and... [read full review]

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine, May 2012

It's a great book - a must have!

There is so little written on women’s work during the Great War, and what exists often takes the form of memoirs, reminiscences and diaries. Until... [read full review]

Sue Light- Scarlet Finders

This superb book covers the period up to the end of the Great War, which dominates the content, and takes in the many branches of service women worked in from medical professions to schoolmistresses and... [read full review]

War History Online

WRNS, WAAC, WRAF, VAD… women have played an increasing role in the armed services since the 19th century, with their influence increasing during the First and Second World Wars. How does one go about researching... [read full review]

Your Family History Magazine: April 2012

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About Mary Ingham

Mary Ingham’s interest in women ancestors was aroused by research for her first book, Now We Are Thirty.
Since starting a specialist family history research service on nurses and women who served in the First World War, she has established herself as an expert on British service women and their records. She has contributed many articles to women’s magazines and also written for Ancestors. This is her third book.

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