Adina Munroe-Charlow, Chairman of the British Legion-Bahamas Branch tells Our News that 24 women serving in WWII in various jobs, including cooks, office clerks, telephone operators, motorbike messengers, vehicle engineers, ambulance and lorry drivers.
“We were there 100 years ago and 77 years ago,” Munroe-Charlow says.
The women were part of the Auxilary Territorial Service, or ATS branch of the Royal British Army during WWII, established in September 1938. In 1949, it was merged into the Women’s Royal Army Corps.
Private Officer-Patricia H. Bedford– B2-Wireless Operator-A.T.S.-N. Ireland
W.N.C.-Non-Commission Officer (Ref.: The Brave Eleven) *Acting Corporal Doreen Jones-Rickards is still alive and lives in Kingston, Jamaica-(October-2022)
Bahamian women also served in the Women Auxiliary Air Force
Aircraftwoman 2-Joan Straton
Aircraftwoman2-Margaret Loughran
Aircraftwoman2-Peggy Hilton
Aircraftwoman2-Grace Johnson
Aircraftwoman2-Mary Brown-Simpson
Aircraftwoman2-Rosemary Kelly
Aircraftwoman2-W. Brownrigg
Aircraftwoman2-Rosalie Knowles
Aircraftwoman2-Bobby Duncombe
Aircraftwoman2-Ann Wanklyn
Aircraftwoman2-Peggy Moseley-Millar Corporal Joan Winder (Transport Division)
Note 1-Ref.: Magazine entitled: NASSAU Vol.12 No.1 d/d December, 1945) Note 2-Ref.: Online Search Wikipedia definition of Aircraft Woman 2–A.C.W.2