A group of items and small collections relating to the Wrens, from both the First and Second World Wars, and up to the 1970s. Highlights include a scrapbook kept by Winsome Mary Kemp which contains many photographs and ephemera relating to her work during the First World War, and a similar type of collection but of loose photographs and ephmera relating to Wrens working in the USA and Australia during the Second World War.

Administrative / biographical background
The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) 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 of the Second World War, remaining active until integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993. WRNs included cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electricians and air mechanics.