This cap badge belongs to the Woman’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). It is made of brass with a voided centre and was worn on the issue hat which was a tight fitting khaki cap. The characters WAAC are contained within a laurel wreath. The cap badge was issued in 1917. The badge is mislabelled "Women's Anti-Aircraft Gunners". This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $20.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. The British Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (1917–1918) was later named Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps (1918–1920). Over 57,000 women served between January 1917 and November 1918. On 31 March 1917 women in the WAAC were first sent to the battlefields in France, just 14 cooks and waitresses. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan was the Senior Officer overseas, and Florence Leach was the controller of the cooks. The corps was disbanded in September 1921. After a German air raid in September 1940 most of the service records did not survive. Those which did have suffered fire, water and mould damage. The National Archives in Kew, Surrey, digitised these to prevent further damage and they can be searched and viewed online. Cap Badge - The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was formed in July 1917. This was the first Army Unit for Women.