Group    From 1917  To 1993

Women's Royal Naval Service

Categories: Armed Forces

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for WW1, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the beginning of WW2, remaining active until integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993. WRNS included cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electricians and air mechanics. The first director was Katherine Furse.

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Women's Royal Naval Service

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Dame Katharine Furse

{Beneath the WRNS badge:} On this site in January 1918 Dame Katharine Furse G...

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J. L. Myers

J. L. Myers

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
7th (Southwark) Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

7th (Southwark) Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Formed in 1937 by renaming the 24th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Queen's). The Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Association website gives an outline of this battalion show...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Philip Neame, VC

Philip Neame, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 19 December 1914, age 26, while serving in the Corps of Royal Engineers. "Leaving his Sappers to finish their task he went to the aid of a West Yorkshire bombing s...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Fireman Jeremiah Donovan

Fireman Jeremiah Donovan

Died in a fire at St Stephens Hospital, Chelsea. Jeremiah Donovan was born on 10 March 1905 in Battersea, London, one of the six children of Jeremiah Donovan (b.1868) and Mary Donovan née Cunningh...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Hy. Jeffries

Hy. Jeffries

Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial