my 105yrs old grandmothers ww1 waac service record

[ian.h]

hi all,  my grandmother violet rosina borlase (her maiden name) is 106yrs old in january and we have been told by the world war one veterans association she may be the only known living woman left to have served  in the waac in ww1,  we have been trying find her army service records but sadly it looks like her records were lost in the blitz's and was not one of the 7,000 records saved on the waac in ww1, we have tried the national archive and the waac association  but with no luck, is there any other places i could look for her records?
 the ww1 veterans association  have been most helpful trying to find any info on her and they  ask if she would like to come to london one day soon and meet a very very special lady if they could arrange it  
 the daily paper in south wales did a story of her time in  london in the first world war a few weeks back and took a nice photo of her and my dad,  
 if any one would like to read it pm  me your email address and il email you a copy of it. many thanks if you can help
atb ian. h

[liverpool annie]

Hi Ian !

Where was Violet born ? was she from Cornwall too ?? and did she have another name that she went by ........ ?

Annie 

[loo]

I have no clue, but I do hope your gran gets to meet that very very special lady in London - who perhaps had a mother of similar vintage until relatively recently?

[ian.h]

hi annie,
thanks for the reply, violet was born in bristol in 1900 and moved to newport when she was 4mths old, ref the other name no annie.
when she was in the waac in ww1 she was working in the hotels in London looking after the boys and can still remember the zeppelin raids.
atb ian

[ian.h]

hi loo, 
i hope she can meet her to, it was a bit of a shock when the man from the veterans association phoned the other night and suggested it, we will have to keep her off the Guinness that day .
atb ian

[suey]

we will have to keep her off the Guinness that day .

Lol Ian, my old gran swore by her half pint of Guiness a day, she sadly died just short of her 100th birthday, hmmm think I'll pop off to the off-licence later

I do hope your Gran gets to make that trip to London, what an amazing lady she must be, you must be so proud 

Suey

[Scarletwoman]

Ian

As her record is not in the surviving 7000 QMAAC/WAAC files, there is nowhere else that the information would be found.  The only tiny chance of finding anything else is within the Imperial War Museum's 'Women, War and Society' collection.  It needs to be accessed at the IWM, and is fully searchable via their internal online database, and although it may be unlikely for her name to show up, if she can remember some of the names of the places that she worked, it may be possible to build up a fuller picture of what she did during the war.

Sue

[manmack]

hi all,  my grandmother violet rosina borlase (her maiden name) is 106yrs old in january and we have been told by the world war one veterans association she may be the only known living woman left to have served  in the waac in ww1,  we have been trying find her army service records but sadly it looks like her records were lost in the blitz's and was not one of the 7,000 records saved on the waac in ww1, we have tried the national archive and the waac association  but with no luck, is there any other places i could look for her records?
 the ww1 veterans association  have been most helpful trying to find any info on her and they  ask if she would like to come to london one day soon and meet a very very special lady if they could arrange it  
 the daily paper in south wales did a story of her time in  london in the first world war a few weeks back and took a nice photo of her and my dad,  
 if any one would like to read it pm  me your email address and il email you a copy of it. many thanks if you can help
atb ian. h

looks like theres going to be two special ladies in london that day,fantastic,mack

[ian.h]

thanks manmack for the reply it would be the proudest day of my life if my grandmother could meet her and have a chat about things

 hi sue, thanks for the info about the iwm,we have been trying to get as much info of violet about her time in London in ww1 , names of hotels where she was posted etc.

hi suey,violet loves the Guinness and haves a glass every night before bed with out fail in the nursing home were she lives and god help the staff if they are late with it,she may be 105 but she got a wicked tongue on her.

iv been trying to post  the story/image of her and my dad in the paper on  this post but i just cant work out how to do it (me and computers don't get on)
is there any nice person i could email it to and then to post it for me on here for me  please.
atb ian