Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps sheltering in a cave during an air raid, Etaples, 1918

Photograph, World War One, Western Front, 1918.

The women of the WAAC were employed on the Western Front in a variety of jobs. As well as cooking and waiting on officers, they served as clerks, telephone operators, store-women, drivers, printers, bakers and cemetery gardeners. The WAAC also shared the dangers of their male colleagues. Air raids on the camps and depots were frequent and in one, on 30 May 1918, nine women died during a raid at Abbeville.

From an album of 21 photographs and ephemera relating to the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC), 1917-1919.