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).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dame Katharine Furse
{Beneath the WRNS badge:} On this site in January 1918 Dame Katharine Furse G...
The HQ of the United States Army Air Forces moved from London to Camp Griffiss in Bushy Park and then, following the success of D-Day, to France.
The story is well told at Times of Malta. The cutting equipment used in the robbery was supplied by Errico Malatesta.
Albert George Booth was born on 6 September 1898 in Devonport, Devon, a son of Thomas and Agnes Elizabeth Booth. His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1898 in the Devonport registration di...
Hero. R.A.F (South African Artillery). On 27 December 1919 he dived into the Thames from the upstream footway of Hammersmith Bridge and saved a drowning woman. He contracted tetanus as a consequenc...
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 12 March 1915, age 23, while serving in the Corps of Royal Engineers. "With a party of six infantry bombers under intense enemy fire he held back enemy reinforceme...
