Women's Ranks
From 1941 to 1949 the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) used the ranks of Second Subaltern and Subaltern which were equivalent to Second Lieutenant and Lieutenant respectively. From 1949 to 1950 the ATS's successor organization, the Women's Royal Army Corps, also used the same ranks until it abandoned them in favour of regular British Army ranks.
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