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1st edn., xviii, 107pp, half tone frontis portrait, 6pp half tone photo ills., coloured decorative endpapers, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), dark blue cloth with white title label on upper board decorated and lettered in black, when the Royal Air Force was founded on April 1st 1918 there were already a considerable number of women from Women's Royal Naval Service and Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps attached to flying units employed in support roles in offices and in maintenance trades. On 1st April they had the option of being re-posted within WRNS or QMAAC or of becoming members of the new Womens Royal Air Force. A total of 31,670 women are said to have served in the WRAF in capacities ranging from mechanics, drivers, caterers, cleks and tailors, releasing many men for combatant roles. They existed until 1920 and were disbanded on April 1st that year - this is their story. The introduction by H. C. I. Gwynne-Vaughan (sometime Commandant, WRAF) appears to be signed by her in ink (page viii) and the subsequent short introduction by the author also appears to bear her original faded ink signature (page xiii), loosely inserted is a folded handwritten note to Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, in French, signed by Alice Chauncey but this may have no connection with the author of this book, spine re-backed in dark blue cloth, original cloth rubbed through to boards at tips, edges tanned and dusty, small chips and stains to fore- and lower edges of frontis port., old insect damage to fore-edge margin of pages 65-92, no dustwrapper, good plus, Seller Inventory # 44832
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