Interesting USN photo with Yeomanette's

[navycollector]

Thought I would share this yard long with you. You hardly find photo's that have women(Yeomanette's) from ww1 in them.



Jason

[kc1]

Thanks for posting are we talking shore based signals?

[navycollector]

The women volunteer's that went into the navy during ww1 were called Yeomanette's. They did basicly cleric duties that I know of but i'm no expert.

They are at some base, but the writing is faint and can't make it out at the bottom of the picture.

I just found this website that has good information. It seems there was only a little over 11,000 women that served.

Women & the U.S. Navy - World War I era Yeomen (F)


Jason