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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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London county Council John Harrison, 1693 - 1776, inventor of the marine chronometer, lived and died in a house on this site.
Greater London Council Katherine Mansfield, 1888 - 1923, writer, and her husband John Middleton Murry, 1889 - 1957, critic, lived here.
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