WRNS 1946

JEAN MARY SHOOTER. Wren N/51655 WRNS on HMNS Pembroke III.
Born 04 December 1924 at Bingham, Nottinghamshire to Tom and Betty Shooter, of Nottingham.
Died 04 January 1946 aged 21 years of intestinal obstruction in Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. At rest in Nottingham Southern Cemetery. Nottingham.

MARJORIE ELEANOR ELLIS, nee Brownlee. Leading Wren N/82342 WRNS on HMS Boscawen.
Born 30 January 1920 at St Helens, Lancashire to James Arthur and of Anne Brownlee, nee Jones of Maghull. Near Liverpool Lancashire
She married Warrant Officer Leonard Theodore Ellis in 1941 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Died 17 January 1946 age 25 of acute pulmonary oedema, at Portway Hospital, Weymouth. Dorsetshire. At rest in St Helens Cemetery, Lancashire.
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Marjorie Eleanor Ellis of 43 Gainsborough Avenue, Maghull, Lancashire. Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her husband.

MARGARET ROSEANNE COLE. 3rd Officer WRNS on HMS Braganza.
Born 1917 to Charles and Catherine Cole, nee MacGregor of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.
Died 19 January 1946 age 30 years of an overdose of phenobarbitone, suicide. Death location not given.
Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent.

Extract from Yorkshire Evening Post - Friday 25 January 1946
Wren Officer Dead in Indian Hotel
Military police are inquiring into the death of Miss Margaret Cole, a 23 year old British W.R.N.S. officer whose body in advance stage of decomposition
was found in a locked room of a Karachi hotel. Miss Cole, who was due to leave for Britain on Thursday, had not been seen for six days. Police forced the door found a note saying “Going to Manora” and a letter. Manora is a small island off Karachi harbour.
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Margaret Roseanna Cole otherwise Margaret Roseanne, otherwise Margaret Rose Ann of 49 High Street, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, spinster died on date stated. Her effects went to her father, engineer.

ALICE COPESTAKE, nee Entwistle. Petty Officer ren P/1931 WRNS on HMS Collingwood.
Born 21 September 1906 to Thomas and Margaret Ellen Entwistle, of Darwen, Lancashire
Wife of Harry Copestake who she married in June Quarter 1945 at Ashby de la Zouch
Died 31 January 1946 age 39 years of general toxaemia and carcinoma of the left breast at Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital, Woolton, Liverpool, Lancashire.
At rest in St Stephen Churchyard, Tockhole, Lancashire
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Alice Copestake of Collins Row, Darwen Lancashire. Died on date stated. Her effects went to her husband, a waiter.

ETHEL MARY ANGELA GOODENOUGH. Superintendent WRNS
Born 12 January 1900 at Simla, India to Lt.-Col. Herbert Lane Goodenough, formerly Indian Army, and of Muriel Grace Mitford Goodenough, of Setley, Hampshire.
1911 with her married mother and siblings at Berrow Road, Burnham
Awarded, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)
1939 residing at Flat 04 46a Kings Road, Chelsea, occupation, civil servant.
Died 10 February 1946 age 46 years of acute anterior poliomyelitis at St Peters Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital, Colombo. At rest in Liveramentu Cemetery, Colombo.
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Ethel Mary Goodenough C.B.E. of Flat 04 46a Kings Road, Chelsea, London spinster died on date stated in Ceylone. Her effects to National Provincial Bank Limited.

DOROTHY EUNICE HARRIS, nee Ferguson. Leading Wren P/5043 WRNS on HMS Victory IV.
Born 23 January 1910 to Duncan and Harriet Lily Ferguson, of Buckland, Portsmouth.
1911 with her parents and siblings at 22 Highgate Road, Copnor, Portsmouth
Wife of Dudley George Harris who she married in June quarter 1931 in Portsmouth.
Died 12 February 1946 age 36 years of carcinoma of the pancreas at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth. At rest in Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth. Hampshire
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Dorothy Eunice Harris of 70 Shakespeare Road Fratton Portsmouth. Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to mother, widow and Gladys May Riding wife of Thomas Riding.

G JOHN. Wren W/29593 WRNS Royal Indian Navy
Born 1926 to M. V. John, of Tellichery, Madras, India.
Died 13 February 1946 age 20 years.
Commemorated on the Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials.

JOAN DOREEN EMERSON. Leading Wren P/21414 WRNS on HMS Daedalus III.
Born 18 September 1923 to Thomas Wesley Emerson.
Died 04 March 1946 age 21, of a fractured skull, and lacerations to the brain as the of a train accident at Kings Cross Station, London. Her funeral was held at Weymouth Crematorium, Dorsetshire.
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Joan Doreen Emerson of Easton Street, Portland, Dorsetshire, spinster died 04 March 1946 at King’s Cross Station, St Pancras, London. Her effects went to her father, licensed victualler.
Extract from the Daily Newspaper dated Tuesday 05 March 1946
TRAIN KILLS WREN.
Trains of the Piccadilly Underground were held up for fifteen minutes yesterday while workman extricated the body of Leading Wren Joan Emerson of Easton Dorset, killed when she fell in front of a train at Kings Cross.

CYNTHIA EVELYN FULLER. Wren N/39477 WRNS of Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital, Woolton.
Born 04 July 1922 at Repton, to Ernest Alfred and Katherine Sophy Fuller, of Repton. Derbyshire
Died 16 March 1946 at David Lewis Northern Hospital, Chidwall, Liverpool Lancashire of cervical abscess (neck abscess) and asphyxia from tracheal obstruction. At rest in St Wystan Churchyard, Repton, Derbyshire.
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Cynthia Evelyn Fuller of The Pastures, Repton Derbyshire, spinster, on date and place stated. Her effects went to her father, managing director.

EILEEN MARY LANGHORN. Wren N/55462 WRNS on HMS Pembroke I.
Norn 21 February 1923 at Kenilworth, Warwickshire to Bruce Colin and Irene Langhorn, of Kenilworth.
Died 21 March 1946 age 23 years of hodgkins disease at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex. At rest in Kenilworth Cemetery, Warwickshire.
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Eileen Mary Langhorn of 25 Bertie Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her father, planning engineer.

PAMELA ELEANOR GRANVILLE BRADSHAW. Petty Officer Wren 38156 WRNS on HMS Kongoni.
Born 24 January 1918 at Brentford to Granville E and Muriel H Bradshaw, nee Mathieson
1939 residing at Mickleham, Scrase Hill, Cuckfield, Sussex, occupation Ladys Companion
Died 22 March 1946 age 28 years of pulmonary tuberculosis at Robertsbridge, Sussex. At rest in St Mary Churchyard, Salehurst, East Sussex.

GWENDOLINE MARY MOSS. Wren 13493 WRNS
Born 14 September 1919 Frederick Mark (Leading Seaman P/221717 Royal Navy) and Louisa Rose May Moss
1939 with her mother now called Smith and stepfather James Smith at 01 Highbury Cottages, Prospect Road, Portsmouth, occupation, barmaid
Died 26 March 1946. At rest in Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire.

JEAN MUIR KIRK. Wren N/68028 WRNS on HMS Quebec.
Born 24 April 1922 at Stonehouse, Lanarkshire to James and Jean Kirk, of Cleland.
Died 26 March 1946 age 23 of appendicitis and acute generalised peritonitis.
in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland. At rest in Kirk of Shotts Cemetery, Shotts, Lanarkshire.

EVELYN MONICA SANER. 2nd Officer WRNS on HMS Highflyer.
Born 1912 to Edward John and Mabel Lucy Monica Saner, of Beverley, Yorkshire.
She was incinerated, on the 29 March 1946 age 34 years as the result of an aircraft which was on fire prior to crashing in Delhi, India.
At rest in Delhi War Cemetery, India
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Evelyn Monica Saner of Westwood Lodge, Beverley, Yorkshire, spinster died 29 March 1946 at Delhi, India. Her effects went to William Henry Crookenden Cobb and Peter Donaldson Saner, solicitors’ articles clerks.

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On the 29 March 1946 she was a passenger in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator Transport Aircraft VIII, EW630 of 232 Squadron with crew of three and a VAD Nurse, Evelyn Pansy Fleming when in flight developed a fire in the nose compartment that spread before an emergency landing could be made. Three died at the scene and Sergeant Logan died of his injuries later that day. All three are buried in Delhi War Cemetery as is a Flight Sergeant Logan who died later that day. She died from burns aged 23 along VAD Nurse Fleming and Sergeant 462954 Eileen Marjoria Eaton, WAAF and Flight Sergeant 1821780 Duncan Strachan Hail Logan RAFVR died later of his injuries. burns.
All those who died at the scene were burnt beyond recognition.

NORA KATHLEEN GILES, nee Bird. Petty Officer Wren N/32186 WRNS on HMS Afrikander.
Born 13 February 1898 to Charles Edwin and Fanny Giles, nee Westlake
1901 with her parents and siblings at 46 Ecclesbourne Road, Islington, London.
1911 residing with her siblings at the home of George William Bird, uncle, of Annette Crescent, 266 Essex Road, Islington.
She married Arthur Giles in December quarter 1939 at Nottingham.
Died 06 April 1946 age 47 years of Cerebral malaria at Royal Naval Hospital, Simonstown South Africa. At rest in Dido Valley Cemetery, Simon’s Town, Western Cap, South Africa.
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Norah Kathleen Giles of 71 Ferme Park Road, Hornsey Middlesex. Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her brother William Thurza Giles, secretary.

DOROYHY MAY BINDON. Petty Officer Ply/5330 WRNS on HMS Drake II.
Born 25 October 1906 at Henstridge, Somerset to Wallace Henry and Elizabeth Bindon.
1911 with her parents and sibling at Station Road, Henstridge, Blandford, Somerset.
1939 residing at Lawrence House Southgate Wincanton, Somerset, occupation laundry ledger clerk.
Died 10 April 1946 age 39 years at Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth of multiple injuries due to throwing herself from a window, whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed, suicide.
At rest in St Mary Churchyard, Templecombe, Somerset.

DOROTHY EDITH MUSK, Wren N/86642 WRNS on HMS Dryad.
Born 29 September 1923 at Deepcar, Yorkshire to Ernest Harry Clement Musk and Beatrice Charlesworth Musk, of Penistone.
Died 10 April 1946 age 22 years of aplastic anaemia, at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
At rest in St Mary Churchyard, Bolsterstone, Yorkshire.

DIANA MARGARET ASHBY, nee Swain. 2nd Officer WRNS on HMS Victory IV.
Born 1920 to George Stephen and Janet Lucie Swain, of Peterborough, Northamptonshire.
1939 her parents were residing at 25 Lindon Road, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, There is one record officially closed it may be Diana.
She married Kenneth R Ashby, June quarter 1945.
Died 20 April 1946 age 26 years of pulmonary tuberculosis at Cambridge
Her funeral was held at Cambridge Crematorium, Cambridgeshire.

OLIVE MARY CLARKE. Wren Cook N/75995 WRNS on HMS Gosling.
Born 11 June 1925 at Boston, Lincolnshire to George Wilfrid and Lilian May Clarke, of Boston.
Died 22 April 1946 of 1. Pneumonia. 2. Lupus Erythematous. 3. Cardiac Failure at Emergency Medical Service (E.M.S.) Hospital, Boston Lincolnshire.
At rest in Boston Cemetery, Lincolnshire.

ELISABETH MURIEL SUMMERS. Wren N/103159 at Royal Marines, Portsmouth Division.
Born 17 February 1926 at Lynemouth, Morpeth, Northumberland to Albert Edward Scott and Eliza Summers, of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea.
Died 03 May 1946 age 20 years of acute leukaemia at 14 Gibson Street, Newbiggin-by-Sea, Northumberland.
At rest in St Bartholomew Churchyard, Newbiggin Northumberland.
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Ellizabeth Muriel Summers of 14 Gibson Street, Newbiggin-by-Sea, spinster died on date stated. Her effects went to her mother.

EMILY ANDREWS. Wren N/78934 WRNS on HMS Condor.
Born 24 September 1926 at Thornhill, Dewsbury to Arthur and Mary Andrews, of Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury.
1939 her parents were residing at 434 Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury.
Died 05 June 1946 age 19 years of Tuberculosis Peritonitis at her home, 466 Huddersfield Road, Drewsbury. At rest in Dewsbury Cemetery, Yorkshire

CATHERINE MARY MacDONALD, nee Murphy. Leading Wren N/53088 WRNS on HMS Fullerton.
Born 03 May 1921 at Kinning Park, Glasgow to John and Catherine Murphy, of Glasgow
Wife of Cpl. Allan MacDonald, R.A.F.
Died 02 July 1946 of bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis at Emergency Medical Service (E.M.S). Hospital, Bangour, Broxburn, Scotland.
At rest in St Conval’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Barrhead, Renfrewshire
Her husband
Corporal 616420 Allan MacDonald, Royal Air Force. He was one of a group of 5 Air Force passenger and with a crew of two flying in an Avro Anson C. Mk XIX, TX175 which took off from RAF Gutersloh, West Germant 07 November 1946 bound for RAF Bovingdon, Hertfordshire when it collided with a 420 foot chimney whilst flying low in bad weather at De Wendel Colliery and dived into the ground. All perished at the scene. He was aged 25 years.
All at rest in Munster Heath War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

DOREEN MARGARET MARSHALL, Wren 51177 WRNS on HMS President I.
Born 1924, possibly to Charles and Grace Ethel Marshall, nee Merritt
1939, Doreen Margaret Marshall born 25 August 1924 residing with her parents at 296 Kenton Road, Harrow, Middlesex.
On the 04 July 1946 age 21 years She was murdered in her uniform by Nevill Heath in the Norfolk Hotel where she was staying while waiting to be demobbed from the WRNS.
She is at rest in Pinner Cemetery, Middlesex.
You did not deserve to die like this. Rest in Peace, you will never be forgotten
The facial image of Doreen, credited to the Daily Echo.

Neville George Clevely Heath, a former commissioned RAF aircraft pilot of Wimbledon was court martialled and had dishonourable discharge from the RAF, then he joined Royal Army Service Corps, with the same outcome. He was hanged on the 16 October 1946.

Some of the above information was taken in relation to her death from the below link

RUBY POTTER. Wren Steward (O) N/105582 on HMS Dundonald.
Born 20 March 1928 at Watford, to Frederick and Rose Potter, nee Fountain of Watford, Hertfordshire
Died 06 August 1946 age 18 years of tubercular bronchopneumonia at Mearnskirk, Emergency Medical Service (E.M.S.) Hospital.
At rest in Watford North Cemetery, Hertfordshire.

AGNES EGAN. Leading Wren N/105568 WRNS on HMS Peewit.
Born 09 October 1927 to Thomas and Isabella Egan, of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Died 27 August 1946 age 18 years of Tubercular peritonitis and pleurisy at Bridge of Earn, Emergency Medical Service (E.M.S.) Hospital, Perthshire.
At rest in Mount Vernon Roman Catholic Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

JANE RIDDLE COULSON. Wren 42600 WRNS on HMS Elfin.
Born 1924 to Joseph Riddle and Isabella Coulson, of Dawdon, Seaham, Durham.
Died 01 September 1946 age 22 years.
At rest in Seaham Cemetery, Durham.
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Jane Esther Coulson of 43 Stavordale Street, Seaham, Durham, spinster died at Seaham Hall Sanitorium, Seaham, Durham. Her effects went to her father, haulage engineman. (Railway).

JOYCE EVELYN HILEY. Wren Steward N/105020 WRNS on HMS Raleigh.
Born 15 June 1926 to Alfred and Emma Hiley, of Kennington.
1939 residing at the Jarman family, Hill Rise, 09 Hare Hill, Chertsey, Surrey, at school
Died 03 September 1946 age 20 years of Toxaemia, intestinal obstruction at Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Plymouth Hampshire.

EDNA MARY RAWSON. Wren N/102137 WRNS on HMS Vernon.
Born 03 August 1926 at Leicester to Wilfred and Dorothy Rawson, of Mountcastle Road, Leicester.
She died 23 September 1946, aged 20 years of a fractured skull and sever hemorrhage.
At rest in Gilrose Cemetery, Leicester, Leicestershire
Fatal Motor Cycle Accident,23 September 1946.

Extract taken from Leicester Evening Mail dated Thursday September 26, 1946.

On the 23 September 1946 she was a pillion on a motor cycle which was driven by Leading Radio Mechanic R. Jolly of HMS Dolphin which collided with a motor car at a junction in Portsmouth, according to a witness at 11.10 p.m. on Monday. Miss Rawson who was the pillion was thrown and three feet into the air and for a considerable distance and fell against the wall of a bank at a corner The rider tried to get up but could not. The traffic light at the junction had been extinguished in accordance with the usual practice. (Black-out)
K Turner of Portsmouth the driver of the cay said he slowed down to about 10 mph on reaching the junction dipped his headlights in front of him. The cycle collied with his radiator.
(The naval man received a fractured leg)

ANNIE FORSHAW. Wren N/72802 WRNS on HMS Victory IV.
Born 11 July 1925 at Blackpool Lancashire to Edward and Ellen Forshaw.
Died 11 October 1946 of Pulmonary tuberculosis at Heath Charnock Sanatorium, Liverpool. At rest in Carleton Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire.

PEGGY CARTER. Wren 26685 WRNS
Born 1923 to Frederick George and Annie Carter, of Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
Died 21 October 1946 age 23 years at The Infectious Disease Hospital, Portsmouth. At rest in Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
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Peggy Carter of 20 Widley Road, Stramshaw, Portsmouth, spinster. Died on date and place stated, her effects went to her mother.

NANCY ESME SCARFE. Wren N/70635 on HMS Nightjar.
Born 03 May 1923 to Alfred Lewis and Annie Beatrice Scarfe, of Lancaster.
Died 22 October 1946 of tuberculosis at Lancaster Pulmonary Hospital.
At rest in Scotforth Cemetery, Lancashire.

EVELYN DORIS WILLES LITTLE. 1st Officer WRNS on HMS Boscawen.
Born 1895 to John Francis Willes and Eliza Margaret Little.
1901 with her parents and siblings at Elmhurst, Petition Road, Torquay, Devon
1911 aged 15 years at school. The Gables, Littleham, Devon. Her parents for the same period were residing at Elmhurst, Petition Road
Died 06 November 1946 age 51 years at home of an inoperable carcinoma.
At rest in Broadside Cemetery, Poole, Dorset.
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Evelyn Doris Willies Little or Doris Willes of Rivington, Broadstone Dorsetshire, spinster, died on date stated. Her effects went to Margaret Marion Wright Little, spinster.
Birth Name Evelyn Doris W Little. Born September Quarter 1895 in r/d of Dorking, Surrey

HELEN McNEIL. Petty Officer Wren R/4115 WRNS oh HMS Merlin.
Born 06 June 1903 to Hepburn and Jessie McIntosh McNeil.
Died 07 November 1946 age 43 years of phthisis at City Fever Hospital, Edinburgh, Midlothian. Commemorated on a Memorial, Panel 1 at Seafield Crematorium, Edinburgh, Scotland.

JEAN OLWEN DIXON. Leading Wren WA/77032 WRNS on HMS Scotia.
09 February 1925 to William Norman and Sarah Elizabeth Dixon, of Clayton, Manchester.
Died 15 December 1946 age 21 years of Reticular sarcoma at Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital, Rainhill, Liverpool. At rest in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire.