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Photograph, Brig Mary Anderson, Director Women's Royal Army Corps, meeting telephonist, Pte Angela Capes, WRAC, in Singapore, March 1968. From a collection of 688 photographs of the Women’s Royal Army Corps serving overseas, 1950 (c) - 1991 (c).
Eastern Command. Fes/68/43/15 Meeting the Director Pausing for a while from her duties as a telephonist with the WRAC in Singapore, is 20-year-old Private Angela Capes. The occasion: the visit of Brigadier Mary Anderson, Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps, to the Far East. Angela, whose parents liva t 3, Minster Road, Gillingham, Kent., has been in the WRAC for over two years. She is due to return to Britain next January. She is enjoying her tour in the Far East - even when, last Summer, she went on an exercise in Malaysia and "jungle bashed" with full marching order. From: British Army Public Relations, HQ FARELF March 1968.