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- Mechanised_Transport_Corps abstract "The Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC), sometimes erroneously called the Motor Transport Corps, was a British women's organisation that initially provided its own transport and uniforms and operated during the Second World War. It was a civilian uniformed organisation that provided drivers for government departments and other agencies. Among other roles, members drove staff cars, including for foreign dignitaries whose drivers were not accustomed to driving on British roads, and ambulances in the Blitz.The Mechanised Transport Training Corps (MTTC) was founded in 1939 by Mrs G. M. Cooke CBE as a women's voluntary civilian organisation. It was recognised by the Ministry of War Transport in 1940 and renamed the MTC, and its members were conscripted and received pay.Various women who served with the MTC were awarded one MBE, two BEMs, nine Croix de guerre, ten Colonial Medals, a Certificate for Gallantry, and mentions in dispatches.Some of the best-known members were the women who volunteered to drive ambulances in France at the beginning of the war as part of Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit and became known as the \"Spearettes\". Their endeavours were held in high esteem by the French and it is said that \"petulant General de Gaulle peremptorily ordered the hospital to be disbanded because the crowds at the Paris Victory Parade dared to cheer: 'Vive Spears!'\"Groups from the MTC drove ambulances and other transport in Syria, Egypt, and Palestine, as well as driving SOE agents to airfields to board the planes that would parachute them into occupied France. A notable MTC driver was Kay Summersby, General Eisenhower's driver, who subsequently claimed that she had had an affair with him.Despite the appearance of the character Samantha Stewart in the television series Foyle's War there is no evidence that any MTC member was ever seconded to a police force.".
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- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink British_Empire_Medal.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Category:Women_in_World_War_II.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Category:Womens_organisations_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Charles_de_Gaulle.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Colonial_Medal.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Croix_de_Guerre.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Dwight_D._Eisenhower.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Foyles_War.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink France.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Government_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Hadfield-Spears_Ambulance_Unit.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Kay_Summersby.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Liberation_of_Paris.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Mentioned_in_dispatches.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ministry_of_War_Transport.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Special_Operations_Executive.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Staff_car.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink The_Blitz.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLinkText "British Mechanised Transport Corps".
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLinkText "MTC driver".
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wikiPageWikiLinkText "MTC".
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- Mechanised_Transport_Corps subject Category:Women_in_World_War_II.
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps subject Category:Womens_organisations_in_the_United_Kingdom.
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- Mechanised_Transport_Corps comment "The Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC), sometimes erroneously called the Motor Transport Corps, was a British women's organisation that initially provided its own transport and uniforms and operated during the Second World War. It was a civilian uniformed organisation that provided drivers for government departments and other agencies.".
- Mechanised_Transport_Corps label "Mechanised Transport Corps".
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- Mechanised_Transport_Corps wasDerivedFrom Mechanised_Transport_Corps?oldid=654950909.
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