Born Katharine Symonds in Bristol. She spent most of her early life in Switzerland and Italy. She joined the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Department in 1909, and at the outbreak of WW1, she headed the first Voluntary Aid Detachment in France. In 1917 she became the first Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS).
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Dame Katharine Furse
{Beneath the WRNS badge:} On this site in January 1918 Dame Katharine Furse G...
Sydney Alfred Everton was born on 5 October 1894 in Sudbury, Middlesex (now Greater London), the elder child of Alfred Wallis Everton (1863-1931) and Jessie Everton née Langford (1873-1965). His bi...
Town in Egypt. The name means 'two worlds'. It was the scene of two battles in 1942, fought by Britain and its allies against the axis of Germany and Italy.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 30 November 1917, age 41, while serving in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). "Most conspicuous bravery, initiative and determination. When brigade HQ ...
Thomas Russell Bowman was born in 1893 in Wainara, Canterbury, New Zealand, the second of the three children of Thomas Bowman (1864-1895) and Annie Bowman née Carson (c.1870-1952). His two siblings...
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