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On this site in January 1918 Dame Katharine Furse GBE established the first headquarters of the WRNS.
Women's Royal Naval Service
W1, Stanhope Gate, 15
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dame Katharine Furse
Born Katharine Symonds in Bristol. She spent most of her early life in Switze...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dame Katharine Furse
The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the ...
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This plaque, shown in both this drawing (by Adcock from Culture 24) and the photo of the house, was lost when the building was demolished...
Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924
Don't get us wrong, we do like Hammersmith Bridge, but all his bridges look rather samey, don't they?
London County Council In a house on this site Florence Nightingale, 1820 - 1910, lived and died.
Born in Suffolk, son of Sir Samuel.
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