Mary Elizabeth Stanton (later Clarke), Telephone Operator.

Group portrait photograph mounted on card, showing WRNS at May Bush, Felixstowe, 1919; Calling up notice for Stanton to travel by train from Erdington in Birmingham to the WRNS Hostel, RAF Felixstowe, on 5 July 1918, and also a letter from the Labour Exchange, dated 4 July 1918 with further instructions, plus a handwritten itinerary; postcard with photograph showing a portrait of WRN in uniform, and signed 'Your Loving Daughter Mary' dated 8 January 1918'; postcard with photograph showing the Peace Day Triumphal March through Strood in Kent, 13 July 1919; postcard with photograph showing three women in uniform, undated.

Administrative / biographical background
Stanton enrolled in the WRNS in July 1918 and was posted to RAF Felixstowe. In November 1919 she transferred to the WRAF. (See service record reference ADM/336/28 at TNA)

Record Details

Item reference: WRN/11; MSS/80/196.0 MSS/80/196 MS1980/196
Catalogue Section: Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum
Level: ITEM
Extent: 1 folder
Date made: 1918-1919
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London