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...
A member of Jas. Shoolbred & Co. Ltd. who served in WW1 and returned. 16th Regiment Brigade
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
12/017041, Royal Army Service Corps. Age 42. My heart is sore pained within me and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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