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Yeoman (F) was an enlisted rate for women in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War I. The first Yeoman (F) was Loretta Perfectus Walsh . At the time, the women were popularly referred to as "yeomanettes" or even "yeowomen", although the official designation was Yeoman (F).
Loretta Perfectus Walsh (April 22, 1896 – August 6, 1925) was the first American woman to officially serve in the United States Armed Forces in a non-nursing capacity. She joined the United States Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917, and subsequently became the first female petty officer in the Naval Reserve when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on March 21, 1917.
She was also proficient in four foreign languages: French, Latin, German, and Japanese. Driscoll enlisted with the US Navy as a chief yeoman (F) in 1918, and worked in the Code and Signal Section of the Director of Naval Communications. throughout WWI. After the war ended, she continued working for the US Navy as a civilian crypto-analyst.
During World War I, after attending business school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she enlisted in the Navy as a Yeoman (F), serving at Camden, New Jersey and at Naval Air Station Wildwood. [1] Joy Bright Hancock, February 1918. Following the war, she married Lieutenant Charles Gray Little, who was killed in the crash of the airship ZR-2 in 1921.
Surrey Yeomanry during the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line.. In August 1914, before the start of the First World War, there were fifty-five yeomanry regiments. Together with the thirty-one regular cavalry regiments and three regiments of horse, which were part of the Special Reserve, these formed the mounted troops of the British
While most of the 'Pals battalions' formed in 1914–15 by local initiative were based on single towns or professions, one of the last to be formed was the 21st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, known as the 'Yeoman Rifles' because it was raised from farmers across a wide area of rural Northern England. [3]
The Heroines of SOE F Section: Britain's Secret Women in France. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5661-4. Fitzsimons, Peter (2002). Nancy Wake: The Inspiring Story of one of the War's Greatest Heroines. Harper Collins. ISBN 0007144016. Foot, M R D (2000). Memories of an SOE Historian. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-184415849-2. Helm, Sarah (2006).
Women who served as enlisted sailors in the United States Navy Reserves with the designation Yeoman (F), primarily during World War I. Pages in category "Yeoman (F) personnel" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.