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  • initialism UK, military, nautical Women's Royal Naval Service

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Examples

  • The women, many of them titled, were mostly WRNS or FANNYs—members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • The women, many of them titled, were mostly WRNS or FANNYs—members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • The first batch of WRNS were despatched as an experiment, although it was doubted at the time if they would be able to do the work.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008

  • During the war, Hester had served with the WRNS, but had turned into such a bubbling chatterbox that nobody dared to repeat a secret in front of her.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • The first batch of WRNS were despatched as an experiment, although it was doubted at the time if they would be able to do the work.

    The Women of Bletchly Park Peggy 2008

  • Dance as quickly as possible to join the WRNS, not because of the uniform, as Miss Burrage suspected, but because one of her boyfriends,

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

  • He held a diamond height badge for having reached 22,500ft in a flight of 3½ hours, and on the airfield he undertook, anonymously, every task - including once cleaning out the cockpit after a young WRNS trainee had been airsick.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • A much different winner is WRNS Studio's woodsy water resources center for the city of Watsonville.

    SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2010

  • The Senior WRNS officer has warned the Admiral that if he routes the convoys any further north, her girls will have to start wearing trousers.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • The two others were WRNS Studio for a water resources center in Watsonville, and Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects for a school's science center in Atherton.

    Curbed SF Andy J. Wang 2010

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