'No 1 QMAAC Unit Orchard Camp', Dieppe, 1918 (c)

Photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1918 (c).

Nissen huts in a Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps camp in Dieppe, France.

Personnel of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) were initially confined to service in Britain, but this was quickly expanded to France. The WAAC became the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1918. The QMAAC was kept on in France after the war to help with the clean-up operation over there, including tending to the cemetery gardens that had been established. The unit was eventually disbanded in September 1921 as the Army was reduced to peacetime levels.

One of 31 photographs relating to camp life in the UK and France, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, World War One, 1918-1919.