Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1976 (Creation)
- 1974 (Creation)
- 1967 (Creation)
- 1942-1946 (Creation)
- 1935 (Creation)
- 1932 (Creation)
- 1928 (Creation)
- 1918-1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Agatha H Mardsen Smedley, 1918-1935, notably her work with the WRNS, 1918-1919, British Red Cross Society, 1928-1935, and Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1938-1945, dated 1918-1919, 1928, 1932, 1935, 1942-1946. Papers relating to the celebrations held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the WRAF, WRAC and WRNS, 1967. Photocopy of minutes of Greater London Branch of the WRAC Association, Aug 1974, and Marsden Smedley's WRAC Association membership card, 1976.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1895; served with WRNS, 1918-1919, British Red Cross Society, 1928-1935, and Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1938-1945; died in 1985.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1986.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
Place access points
People and Organisations
- ATS, Auxiliary Territorial Service (Subject)
- British Red Cross Society (Subject)
- WRNS, Women's Royal Naval Service (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.