The Queen's Army Schoolmistresses were female military

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s who assisted the

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and its predecessors in teaching the children of soldiers in

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schools. They were formed as the Army Schoolmistresses in 1848 and received the "Queen's" prefix in 1928. Some were even taken as

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s by the Japanese. They were disbanded in 1970.

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