| The wartime tricorn hat and WRNS badge on display are those she wore on D-Day itself as she went on duty at Eisenhower's HQ at Southwick House. |
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| Beneath an overcast sky, and in a biting wind, over 400 officers, ratings and WRNS paraded for inspection by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Tovey. |
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| After school, she joined the WRNS and married Richard Hough, the biographer, with whom she had five children. |
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| Caroline worked as a dancer and actress, served in the WRNS and managed a marriage bureau before turning to writing. |
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| After retiring from the WRNS in 1961, Jean from Halifax, Yorkshire, set up a gift shop in Plymouth, then spent time travelling the world. |
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| Shelia Mills joined the WRNS in 1940 to escape the shackles of secretarial work and her unhappy childhood with her social-climbing mother. |
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| It was revived in 1939, and the WRNS continued until disbandment in 1993, as a result of the decision to fully integrate women into the structures of the Royal Navy. |
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