Danish WW2 Pilots

Cpl Gerda Gormsen Hansen

(1920 - 2014)

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Cpl Gerda Gorm Hansen was one the Danish women who volunteered for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War.

Gerda Gormsen Hansen was born on 6 October 1920 in Frederiksberg, the daughter of labourer Svend Gormsen Hansen and Signe Kirstine Gormsen Hansen (née Jensen).[1]

Gerda Gorm Hansen in civilian cloth. Date is unknown (Museum of Danish Resistance).
Gerda Gorm Hansen in civilian cloth. Date is unknown (Museum of Danish Resistance).

Hansen volunteered for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War (436945).[2] The exact date is not known, but the service number indicate that it was in 1941 or 1942.[3] In December 1942 her address is given as W.A.A.F., Wyhalt, Birmingham.[4] There is no further information on the nature of her service at this point. At the end of the war she had been promoted to Corporal.[5]

Endnotes

[1] DNA: Parish register, Solbjerg Sogn.

[2] Frihedsmuseets database over søfolk og soldater i allieret tjeneste, 1939-45, http://allieret.natmus.dk/person.aspx?84699 (accessed on 2 January 2021).

[3] Hansen’s service number is part of a block of numbers (430001 to 440000) allotted for WAAF enlistment in March 1941.

[4] DNA: 10194, Danske Råd i London, Rekrutteringskontoret, pk. 73.

[5] Frihedsmuseets database over søfolk og soldater i allieret tjeneste, 1939-45, http://allieret.natmus.dk/person.aspx?84699 (accessed on 2 January 2021).