Women's Auxiliary Corps (India)

[1][2][3][4][5][6] Recruits had to be a minimum age of 18 years and their duties were clerical or domestic.

[7] Compared to over two million men, the corps of 11,500 women was small, but recruitment was always hampered by caste and communal inhibitions.

Indian women at the time did not mix socially or at work with men and a large part of the corps was formed from the mixed-race Anglo–Indian community.

[8] The WAC(I) had an autonomous Air Wing, which served as the Indian counterpart of the WAAF: the women operated switchboards and similar duties at airfields and air headquarters (AHQ).

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