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Six page document, stapled together entitled ‘48th (SM) Signal Regiment (TA) Annual Camp Administration Instruction’. Gives detail of travel arrangements, clothes, equipment, dress and pay parades at Burniston Barracks in Scarborough. Pte Brenda Reason (now Cpl) is listed as travelling by train from Coventry. The Women’s Royal Army Corps (WRAC) was a corps to which all women in the British Army belonged, unless you were a medical, dental or veterinary officer or a chaplain. It was formed on 1 February 1949 as a successor to the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Its members performed administrative and other support tasks. The WRAC was disbanded in April 1992 and its remaining members transferred to the Corps they served with.