Researching a woman in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corp. Worked as a general clerk with the Royal Flying Corp, and had a promotion just before the founding of the WRAF in 1918, can't make out the handwriting? something pay? [sharedmedia=gallery:images:26754]
P.S. what looks like it may be a dot above a letter i is in fact a very neat square on the original, so I think it is a scanning glitch.
That is impressive Rich. I can see now that you are correct but I could make nothing of it even though I spent three years deciphering ancient documents (well 17th and 18th Century). Decades ago I worked as a teacher. Have spent some years now reading War Diaries. Mike
good day remedesertrat.very senior member,yesterday.04:05pm.re:ww1 handwriting help-women in rfc promotion.one shilling does not sound much by todays standard,but back then two pounds twelve shillings extra a year must have been great,equality was slow but they got there eventually.great post regards bernard85
Wow, thats impressive Rich, I didn't even see the 1/- p/w underneath, it all makes sense now, thanks. Bernard, yes 1 shilling a week would have been quite a lot to a young girl in 1918.
The odd thing is that I didn't really have to study it. It sprung out of the page. Maybe helped by the years that I spent in an old-fashioned insurance brokers in the pre-computer age and more recently 1930s motorcycle factory production records (and the good old Ministry of Supply files).