Britannia's Daughters

The Story of the WRNs

Ursula Stuart Mason

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Maritime
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781848846784
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783032778
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

A comprehensive history of the Women's Royal Naval Service of Great Britain in the twentieth century.
The Women's Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 when the call was for volunteers to release a man for sea service. At the peak there was over 5,000 women serving in Britain and overseas, but efforts to maintain the service in peace time were unsuccessful. It was to be 1939, when the Second World War threatened, before the Wrens were reformed. Theirs was a different and altogether more demanding role which involved the carrying out of some highly secret and responsible duties, and many more of them served outside Britain. By 1945 there were over 75,000 officers and ratings and when the War ended, and those who wished were demobilized, a permanent Service was set up, providing a career for women alongside men of the Royal Navy.
This is their story, often told in their own words, which mirrors the changing place of women in our society in a century of tremendous social progress.
Features a forward by HRH The Princess Royal

APPENDIX II

Honours
1919
CBE(Mil)
Mrs M. L. Cane, Asst Director	Miss D. C. Hare, MD, Asst Director (Medical)
Mrs W. Dakyns, MBE, Asst Director
OBE(Mil)
Miss H. M. Beale, Dep Div Director	Miss M. M. Monkhouse, Asst Director
Miss C. E. Bennett, Dep Div Director	The Hon Mrs E. M. Northcote, Div Director
Miss M. I. Currey, Asst Director	Miss K. St A. Penrose, Div Director
Miss I. M. Jermyn, Div Director	Miss E. M. Royden, Dep Asst Director
Mrs W. M. de L‘Hopital, Dep Asst Director	Mrs B. Valpy, Dep Asst Director
Miss A. B. Maclennan, Dep Div Director	Miss S. J. Warner, Dep Asst Director
Miss E. I. F. Matheson, MBE, Div Director	Miss F. E. Warton, Dep Div Director
Miss E. G. Merston, Dep Asst Director
MBE (Mil)
Miss E. Best, Asst Principal	Miss E. S. M. Laughton, Principal
Miss F. E. Bradshaw, Asst Principal	Miss M. L. MacDonald, Dep Principal
Miss B. M. Craster, Principal	Miss O. M. Macleod, Asst Principal
Miss A. I. Crisp, Dep Principal	Miss J. M. McEwan, Dep Principal
Mrs D. S. M. Eastwood, Principal	Miss B. N. Mouat, Asst Principal
Miss M. G. M. Farrell, Asst Principal	Miss M. H. M. Maunsell, Asst Principal
Miss O. H. Franklin, Dep Principal	Mrs I. H. C. Pettit, Dep Principal
Miss M. Godding, Asst Principal	Miss N. G. Robinson, Dep Principal
Miss I. A. Gye, Dep Principal	Miss I. M. Rope, Dep Principal
Miss M. Hardie, Asst Principal	Mrs V. R. Rubenstein, Dep Principal
Mrs I. N. Horsey, Asst Principal	Miss M. C. E. C. Strickland, Asst Principal
Miss E. M. James, Dep Principal	Miss M. A. Thorburn, Asst Principal
Miss K. M. James, Dep Principal	Miss H. O. Turnbull, Asst Principal
Miss E. G. Johnston, Asst Principal	Miss M. A. M. Wall, Principal
Mrs F. Johnston, Dep Principal	Miss G. M. Watts, Dep Principal
Miss W. E. Kersey, Asst Principal
Medal of the BEO (Mil)	Miss K...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• BUCKINGHAM PALACE
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• I - In the Beginning 1917-1919
• II - Arrangements
• III - And Overseas Too
• IV - Behind the Statistics
• V - Peace and After 1919-1939
• VI - Early Years 1939-1946
• VII - The Scope Widens
• VIII - All The Nice Girls...
• IX - Cogs In The Machine
• X - D-Day
• XI - Training And Release
• XII - The Permanent Service 1946-1980
• XIII - Time of Change
• X - A Momentous Decade
• APPENDIX I - DIRECTORS WRNS
• APPENDIX II
• APPENDIX III - Book of Remembrance
• APPENDIX IV - Other Women’s Naval Services
• APPENDIX V - The Women’s Royal Naval Reserve
• APPENDIX VI
• The Buckmaster Bibliography of Books about the W.R.N.S.
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INDEX