Posts Tagged ‘wrens’
Jack Tar and the Jenny WRNR
To return to an old favourite I just came across an old WW2 Royal Navy anecdote about a woman called Jenny who served in the Women’s Royal Navy Reserve during that war. I had meant to publish before my sabbatical of a couple of years back. Not sure of its source now, or indeed its […]
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Tags: navy, spanking, wrens
Following on from yesterday’s story here is another true account of the caning of some wrens, this time from the early 1970s. Shortly after this time women were included within the Royal Navy proper and would have been, in theory at least, protected from such sanctions. This was sent in by one of our regular […]
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Tags: caning, navy, spanking, the cane, wrens, WRNS
The WRNS and caning in wartime
Much has been written about the caning of women in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. These episodes seem to fall into two types of incident, the semi-official and the unofficial. Although, except for perhaps at Dartmouth, no serving man seems to have been subject to the same discipline. This was probably for […]
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Tags: 1940s, can't sit down, college, corporal punishment, OTK, spanking, the cane, wrens, WRNS
