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BADGE, MEMBERSHIP - ARMADALE WOMENS EMERGENCY CORP

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c. 1940

Overview

Silver coloured metal alloy badge. Badge shape is a circle with an arrow coming out one side and the fletch of the arrow coming out the opposite side. Arrow is on a slight downward angle. The middle of the badge is indented and coloured black. In the middle are raised silver coloured letters [W / EC / A]. The E and C are on the sides with the W and the A down the middle with the top of the A and the bottom of the W joined. Two holes across the horizontal axis of the badge on the rim.

Historical information

The Armadale Women's Emergency Corps were trained in anything that was thought to be necessary. This included: self-sufficiency, cleaning carburettors, changing tyres, firing guns, first aid, stretcher bearing, ambulance work, elementary nursing, and signalling by morse.They were trained by Constable Roy Fletcher (the local policeman), and together they raised money to buy a car, which they then converted into an ambulance. The AWEC's uniform consisted of a button up shirt, a dark tie and overalls, with a beret being worn in winter, and a white pith helmet in summer. There were more than 50 women in the AWEC. One member, Josephine Winstone, joined the air force in 1942, where she worked in a hospital, practicing what she had been taught during her time in the AWEC.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2009.7

Item type

Badges

Themes

People
Social History
War and Conflict

Material

Metal

Width

3 mm

Height or length

79 mm

Depth

45 mm

Keywords

World War Two

Made in COA

ARMADALE

Armadale Womens Emergency Corps

FLETCHER Denzel Roy

Year

c. 1940

Statement of significance

This collection of objects is associated with the Armadale Women's Emgergency Corps (AWEC) which was a volunteer organisation formed as part of a local defense and support system in the Armadale Kelmscott Road Board during World War Two. The Corps was created and run by Constable Roy Fletcher of the Armadale Police Station and was made up of local single women from the district.

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