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Welcome from our Vice-President
Welcome to The WRAC Association website. Whether you are looking for new connections and comradeship or old friends and photos we hope you will find something to amuse, inform and entertain amongst these pages.
Perhaps you served for less than a year, or possibly more than a decade. Maybe you are still serving to this day. Whatever your experience, the WRAC Association provides support and fellowship to our members. From events and activities across the UK, to our benevolent fund for servicewomen who joined prior to 1992 and the Buddy Buddy scheme encompassing serving personnel and veterans, we are working to ensure that women who served remain connected, supported and valued.
With special events large and small planned throughout the year, from our triennial Grand Reunion and services at the National Memorial Arboretum, to local and regional get-togethers, we strive to maintain contact and connections between the women who share the unique experiences of the ATS and WRAC. We are working alongside strategic partners to ensure that female veterans are prioritised in areas of health and social care, and will continue to make certain that our members’ voices are heard in the national arena. As your new Vice-President, it is my priority to deliver an association which meets the needs of all our members and we will strive to improve our delivery and strengthen our impact.
If you’re not already a member or donor, please consider supporting us and joining our thriving association which includes over 3000 members within 52 branches across the UK and overseas. Find out more about the benefits of being a member here.
Brigadier (Retired) Fiona Gardner CBE
Vice-President WRAC Association
SUPPORTING FEMALE VETERANS
Association News
Army Food Insecurity Survey
Northumbria University is working with the RN, RM, Army and RAF Associations to carry out research on food insecurity and financial hardship within the UK Ex-Armed Forces Community. Food insecurity is the lack of access to enough affordable food of decent quality for...
Lady Martha Bruce
We have received the sad news that one of our Life Vice Presidents, Lieutenant Colonel The Lady Martha Bruce OBE TD DL has died. Lady Martha was a contemporary of Her Late Majesty, serving in the ATS and later the WRAC. She has been a stalwart of our Association,...
Jean Simmons
It’s with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Royal Hospital Chelsea Inpensioner Jean Simmons. Jean enlisted at Southampton on 22 October 1954 and badged to the Women’s Royal Army Corps and trained as a switchboard operator. She was posted to the Middle...
Major ‘Mack’ Maskens – McIntyre
It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Major ‘Mack’ Maskens - McIntyre has died suddenly. She has been a stalwart of the Association for many years including being Area Chairman of South and South West Area and for many years the Association Parade...
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second
The Women's Royal Army Corps Association and our members mourn the death of our late Sovereign and Patron, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. Our sadness at this time is shared by people across the globe, as we remember with affection and gratitude the lifetime...
Melanie Howell
It’s with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Melanie Howell on Saturday 6th August. Mel was a larger than life character who opened a WRAC Mediterranean Branch when living in Spain. Organiser of the famous Benidorm Babes Trips . She was also Joint...