Women's Royal Army Corps

The Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC; sometimes pronounced acronymically as /ˈræk/, a term unpopular with its members) was the corps to which all women in the British Army belonged from 1949 to 1992 except medical, dental and veterinary officers and chaplains, who belonged to the same corps as the men; the Ulster Defence Regiment, which recruited women from 1973, and nurses, who belonged to Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

The WRAC was formed on 1 February 1949, by Army Order 6, as the successor to the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) that had been founded in 1938.

[2] In 1974, two soldiers of the corps were killed by the Provisional IRA in the Guildford pub bombings.

[7] It was formed in 1949, and was the only all-female band in the British Armed Forces by the time it was disestablished.

The WRAC organizes Reunion Meetings to promote solidarity among its former members.