1949
Jane Kathleen LAWES. Wren 98831 WRNS of shore base NMS Ariel at Culcheth
Born 08 April 1931 to Colonel Indian Army, Owen Faulkner and Kathlyn Hanson Lawes of Petit Coin, Rozel, Jersey.
09 December 1933 she embarked from London Port bound for India with her mother and brother
She disembarked at London 28 May 1935 from India with her father and brother. Forward address given as 15 Oval Road, Regents Park, London.
27 November 1936 aged 5 years she embarked London bound for Bombay, India with Helen Hirsch both of Green Gates Rustington
02 April 1937 she disembarked at London from India with widow, Helen Hirsch. Their forward address was given as Green Gates, Rustington.
07 November 1940 along with her parents and brother embarked from Liverpool India. Address in England was 15 Oval Road, Regents Park, London.
16 November 1946 she disembarked at Liverpool for India with her mother. Forward address was given as Woodlands, Rustington, Sussex.
She died suddenly at Warrington Cheshire 23 February 1949 age 17 years.
She is at rest in Newchurch, churchyard, Culcheth, Lancashire.
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Florence Powell RODGERS, Petty Officer Wren 55658 WRNS on HMS Merlin, Royal Naval Air Station Donibristle, Dunfermline, Scotland.
Born 04 January 1903 died 07 June 1949 age 46 years at the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, Kent.
The following extract taken from Dundee Courier dated Wednesday 08 June 1949
DUNDEE WREN’S SUDDEN DEATH.
The death took place suddenly yesterday in a naval hospital at Chatham of Miss Florence Powell Rodgers, 2 Mortimer Street, Dundee, a petty office in the W.R.N.S. She spent 25 years at sea or in naval service,
She joined the W.R.N.S. in 1943 and served at Gibraltar, Raormina (Italy) and Malta.
Joan BURGOYNE. Wren 80128 WRNS on HMS Drake.
Born 12 March 1922 at Manchester to Thomas Alfred and Dorothy Janet Burgoyne
1939 with her parents at 154 Burnage Lane, Manchester, occupation, waxing at arts and craft establishment.
Died 27 August 1949 age 27 years of severe burns in Baguley Emergency Hospital, Baguley, Cheshire as the result of a road accident.
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Joan Burgoyne of 25 Moorton Avenue, Burnage, Manchester, spinster, died on date place stated. Her effects went to her farther, signwriter and poster artist.
Extract taken from Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 17 October 1949
Harry Horne of Levenshulme was at Manchester today charged with the manslaughter of Joan Burgoyne 27, Wren of Morton Avenue Burnage, Manchester.
Mrs West, prosecuting said that the girl and another Wren who arrived home on leave from Plymouth on August 11 met Horne and his brother-in-law that night in an hotel. They left another hotel about 11-45pm and drove to Manchester in a car belonging to Horne’s father. Crossing a road junction at high speed the car swerved and struck the nearside kerb. Mounting the footpath it his three trees burst into flames and turned round twice before coming to a standstill. All occupants were injured. Joan Burgoyne was found developed in fames some distance from the car and died about a fortnight later.
Olive Alice Enid HAIGH. Petty Officer Wren 87815 WRNS on HMS Gamecock. Born 07 February 1925 Marylebone, London to Albert Alfred and Ada Alice Haigh died 02 December 1949 aged 24. At rest in Edgeware, Middlesex.
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Olive Alice Enid Haigh of 42 Littlefield Road, Burnt Oak, Edgeware Middlesex died 02 December 1949 at Talke Road, Chesterton, Staffordshire. Her effects went to her father, civil servant.
The following extract taken from Staffordshire Advertiser dated Saturday 24 December 1949
A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the North Staffordshire District Cononer (Mr S.A.H. Burne) at the resumed inquest on Tuesday of 24 year old Petty Officer Olice Alice Enis Haigh who was killed when a motor car in which she was a passenger came into collision with a stationary lorry in Talke Road, Chesterton. It was stated that this car was being driven by Petty Officer Robert Stanley Heath who was taking the deceased and another naval companion to Liverpool and that the deceased was instantly killed when the nearside of the car struck the rear of the lorry. The Coroner suggested that the lorries should white markings at the rear to make them more easily distinguishable in the dark.
1950
Angela Sheila Henrietta KEEPING. Wren Writer 101403 WRNS on HMS President.
Born 20 December 1930 Eustace George and Jessie Kathryn Keeping
Died 19 January 1950 aged 19, at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guilford.
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Angela Sheila Henrietta Keeping of Coomrith Cranley Road Gilford spinster. Died 19 January 1950 at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guilford. Her effects went to her father, retired Group Captain, R.A.F.
Brenda Edith CLEAR. Warrant Steward 98566 WRNS, on HMS Vulture.
Born 02 November 1930 to Percy and Dorothy Elizabeth Bunce Clear, nee Boyd
Died 29 August 1950 aged 19 years in Plymouth, Devon. No cause of death found.
At rest in Eashing Cemetery, Godalming, Waverley Borough, Surrey,
1951
Doreen Charlotte ORD. Wren 105098 WRNS on HMS Unicorn.
Born 19 March 1928 at Doncaster, Yorkshire to Robert William and Charlotte Ord, nee Hardy
1939 her parent was residing at 23 Sheffield Road, Doncaster. There are two records officially closed, she may be one of them
Died 04 January 1951 age 23 years at Doncaster, Yorkshire.
1953
Elizabeth Joan WRIGHT. Wren, WRNS on HMS Harrier. Royal Naval shore establishment for radar research and training, near Dale, Pembrokeshire. Closed in 1961. She was on a fortnight’s training course at HMS Harrier.
Born 29 August 1929 at West Derby, Lancashire to Stephen and Georgina Wright, nee Dawbarn
Died 09 September 1953 age 24 years possible at her at HMS Harrier Haverfordwest, Pembrokshire
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Elizabeth Joan WRIGHT of the Nook, Freshfield Road, Formby Lancashire, spinster. Died 09 September 1953 at Haverfordwest, Milford Haven Pembrokshire. Her effects went to her father, taxi proprietor and her mother.
Following extract taken from Daily Herald dated Thursday 10 September 1953.
One match saves girl on cliff.
For seven hours through the night a Wren balanced on the cliffside ledge from which a friend crashed 150 feet to her death.
Then as her strength failed she struck her last match. The flicker of light was seen by a search party and she was rescued early yesterday. The two 24 year old Wrens, Maria Isobel Dotto from Greenside, Kendal, Westmorland and Elizabeth Joan Wright from Freshfield Road, Formby, Lancs, were on a WRNVR course at Marloes, Pembrokeshire.
HALF- WAY
On Tuesday evening they went out for a swim and were cut off by the tide. They started to climb the cliff. They were half way up when Wright fell to her death on the rocks below. Maria clung to a ledge. At 2 a.m. yesterday Coastguard William Knight of St Anne’s who led the search party saw her signal. A rope was lowered from the top of the cliff and Maria was brought down.
Another extract from a newspaper which recorded that both women were on a fortnight’s training course at HMS Harrier.
The following two WRENS Dingle and Prentice of HMS Sea Eagle, Waterside, Londonderry
both drowned on Saturday 31 January 1953 at sea. Wren Dingle was returning to her ship and Wren Prentice was drafted to HMS Seagle from HMS Dauntless, both on ship, Princess Victoria MV which left Stranraer, Scotland bound for Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland when the it foundered during a severe European windstorm in the North Channel. It sank with the loss of 135 lives.
This was then the deadliest maritime disaster in United Kingdom waters since World War II.
Violet Maud DINGLE. Ordinary Wren 109727 WRNS on HMS Sea Eagle, Waterside, Londonderry
Born 19 December 1933 at Edmonton to Reginald George and Dorothy Isabel
1939 with her mother at 121 Berham Road, Enfield, Middlesex
Dingle. Died 31 January 1953 aged 19 years.
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Violet Maud DINGLE of 121 Bertram Road, Enfield, Middlesex, spinster. Died at sea 31 January 1953. Her effects went to her father, chargehand and her mother
Eileen Sylvia PRENTICE. Ordinary Wren 110001 WRNS, formerly of HMS Dauntless. Drafted to HMS Sea Eagle. Waterside, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Born 10 January 1929 to Raymond and Edith G Prentice nee Wells of Bromley, Kent
1939 she was residing with her parents were residing at 02 Weller Place
Died 31 January 1953 aged 24.
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Eileen Sylvia PRENTICE of 04 Weller Place, Downe, Kent, spinster. Died at sea 31 January 1953. Her effects went to Raymond Prentice, House painter
Jean Margaret MURDOCH. Leading Wren 12266 WRNS on HMS Victory.
Born 16 August 1921 to George A and Helen Grace Murdoch, nee Gray
Died 21 May 1953 at Royal Naval Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire age 31 years.
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Jean Margaret MURDOCH of 21 Reginald Road, Eastney, Portsmouth, spinster. Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her widowed mother
1954
Maureen HORTON. Wren 110352 WRNS on HMS Daedalus Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire.
Born 20 January 1934 to William and Gwendoline V Horton.
1939 with her parents at 219 Carr House Road, Doncaster.
Died 18 September 1954 aged 20.
Sybil Mary BURROWES. 2nd Officer, WRNS, on HMS Daedalus.
Born 08 March 1915 to Gerald Vaughan Butler and Katharine Frances Grant Burrowes.
28 May 1935 disembarked at London Port from Calcutta India 28 May 1935 aged 20. Forward address was Holcombe House, Camberley Surrey.
29 August 1943 promoted to Acting 3rd Officer.
Died at Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire. 04 November 1954 aged 39. At rest in St Peters Churchyard, Frimley, Surrey.
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Sybil Mary Burrowes of Baldoyle, 100 Kings Ride, Camberley, Surrey, spinster died 04 November 1954 at Haslar Hospital, Gosport Hampshire. Her effects went to her widowed mother, £1733. 2s. 10d
Five Naval Personnel from FAA, RNAS HMS Fulmar, Lossiemouth killed in climbing accident Sunday 19 December 1954 on Ben Nevis.
Jean McWHIRTER. Wren 111241 WRNS
Born 03 October 1934 to James and Mary Alice McWriter. She died age 20 years
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Jean McWHIRTER of 59 Towngate, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, spinster. Died 19 December 1954 at Fort William, Invernesshire. ( She fell 1000 feet to her death)
Her effects went to her mother.
The name of the other four who died
David LAWES Aircraft Artificer (A.A.) 4th Class, FX 855599.
Frederick Duncan CASS, Midshipman
Ronald Leonard HUNT. Aircraft Artificer (A.A.) 4c, FX 955634.
John Noel RICHARDSON. Petty Officer Air Fitter (A.F.), SFX 777442.
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Ben Nevis Tragedy 19 Dec 1954
Brief extracts.
On the 19 Dec 1954 over 60 years ago Eleven Royal Naval personnel from Royal Naval Air Station Fulmar (Lossiemouth) left to climb Ben Nevis via Coire Leis. They had stayed overnight and left the CIC hut where they were staying below the great cliffs off Nevis, the party was made up of 8 men and three girls from the Women’s Royal Naval Service. They left the hut finding the weather poor and ascended from Coire Leis at 0900 and reached the summit of Ben Nevis at 1300. They left the summit after a 15 minute break; the conditions were very hard snow
On the descent they had a navigation error about 200 yards from the summit. This error lead them to the cliffs between North East Buttress and the Arete (Brenva Face)
They were not together there was now a party of six ahead and the leader he led them away from the cliffs the others tried to catch up. One of the party behind the leader started glissading, lost control, lost his axe and fell; another member ran after him kicking steps and he lost control and also fell followed by 3 others from the party. In total 5 vanished over the huge cliff and out of sight. The Party Leader roped to edge and could see nothing, they then they descended to the Corrie Leis and found all 5 dead below the huge Brenva Face. They had fallen over 1000 feet, what a tragedy and an awful sight.
Some extract taken from the Daily Mirror dated Tuesday 21 December 1954
Love of life took Jean to her death.
Pretty Jean McWhirter 20 was an outdoor girl. And it was her love of outdoor adventure that made her join the WRNS fifteen months ago. And, again, it was love of adventure to took the outdoor girl climbing the wild steps of Ben Nevis – and her death. For Jean was the girl killed on a plunge over a 900ft, precipice with four men of the Royal Navy at the week-end.
Last night fifty tired men who had battled more that seven hours in a howling blizzard brought the bodied of four men and a girl to the foot of the mountain. And in her home village of Heptonstall Yorks, neighbours mourned with Jean’s father and mother.
The men killed were Aircraftman Artificer David Lawes, 22, of Salisbury Wilts. Petty Officer John N Richardson, 27, of Golden Cross Sussex. Midshipman Frederick D Cass 20 of Edinburgh and Aircraft Artificer Robert L. Hunt 22, of Plymouth.
1956
Barbara Luetchford PALMER. Ordinary Wren 113313 WRNS, Royal Navy on HMS Fulmar.
Born 24 February 1935
Died 15 July 1956 age 21. At rest in Lossiemouth Cemetery, Inchbroom Road, Lossiemouth, Moray Scotland.
Marion Grace JELLETT. Chief Wren 11907 WRNS on HMS Caledonia.
Born 24 February 1916 to Charles Leonard and Emily Grace Jellett, nee Whale
1939 with her parents and sister Dorothy 15 Avenue Road, Winchester, occupation, domestic worker.
She died suddenly 21 November 1956 age 40 at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, Gosport where she had been a patient for a short time.
At rest in Magdalen Hill Cemetery, Winchester. Grave D2/12
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Marion Grace JELLETT of 15 Avenue Road, Winchester, Hampshire, spinster. Died in date and place stated. Her effects went to her widowed mother.
Joy Angela SMITH, Wren 114964, WRNS on HMS Mercury, Royal Navy.
Born 13th October 1939 to William Arthur and Florence Mary Smith
Died 10th February 1959 aged 19 at Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire
At rest in Royal Navy Cemetery, Haslar, Clayhall Road, Gosport, Hampshire
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Joy Angela SMITH of H.M.S. Dauntless, Burghfield Reading, spinster died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her mother.
Marie Isabella MCLACHLAN. (British Empire Medal) Chief Wren 47462 WRNS on HMS Sanderling
Born 02 December 1908.
November 1951 she was presented with her prize for handicraft held at the Barracks, Southsea.
London Gazette dated 09 June 1955.
Awarded the B.E.M. (Military Division) 09 June 1955
Died 27 September 1959 age 50 years.
1959
Joy Angela SMITH, Wren 114964, WRNS on HMS Mercury, Royal Navy.
Born 13th October 1939 to William Arthur and Florence Mary Smith
Died 10th February 1959 aged 19 at Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire
At rest in Royal Navy Cemetery, Haslar, Clayhall Road, Gosport, Hampshire
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Joy Angela SMITH of H.M.S. Dauntless, Burghfield Reading, spinster died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her mother.
Marie Isabella MCLACHLAN. (British Empire Medal) Chief Wren 47462 WRNS on HMS Sanderling
Born 02 December 1908.
November 1951 she was presented with her prize for handicraft held at the Barracks, Southsea.
London Gazette dated 09 June 1955.
Awarded the B.E.M. (Military Division) 09 June 1955
Died 27 September 1959 age 50 years.
1960
Patricia Mary BUCKARD. Wren 114981 WRNS on HMS Harrier.
Born 21 March 1939 to Kenneth J and Ida Buckard, nee Ashton of Blackpool, Lancashire.
1939 her parents were residing at 33 Doncaster Road, Blackpool
Died 05 March 1960 age 20 years.
Kathleen Mary JOHNSTON. Petty Officer Wren 53278 WRNS on HMS Dauntless.
Born 24 July 1910 baptised 21 September 1921 at Lambeth to George Henry and Mary Beatrice Johnston. 1911 with her parents and brother, George at 55 Geneva Road, Brixton, London.
Died 03 June 1960 age 49 years at Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire
At rest in Royal Naval Cemetery, Haslar, Clayhill Road, Gosport, Hampshire.
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Kathleen Mary JOHNSTON of 239 Mayall Road, London S.E.24 and HMS Dauntless, Burfield, Reading Berkshire, spinster, died on date and place stated. Her effects went to Sally Edith Stuart wife of Cyril Stuart.
Doreen WOODS. Ordinary Wren 115721 WRNS on HMS Condor. Arbroath, near Dundee, Scotland.
Born 11 October 1939, died on her birthday, Saturday 11 October 1960 age 21 years. At rest in Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
1961
Margaret McKinnon CLARK. Wren 118041 WRNS, HMS Mercurr, Portsmouth.
Born 1st August 1942 to William James Falconer and Kathleen Louise Clark, nee Evans.
Died 16th February 1961 aged 18 of a fractured skull at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire as the result of some falling scaffolding at HMS Mercury.
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Margaret McKinnon CLARK of 51, Croham Road, South Croydon, Surrey, spinster. Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her father, bank official.
The following extract is taken from the Croydon Times dated Friday 24 February 1961
‘Wren’ Died in Scaffold Fall.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded at Gosport inquest on Tuesday on Margaret Clark an 18 year old “Wren” of Croham Road, South Croydon who died on February 16 after being struck on the head by some falling scaffolding at HMS Mercury near Portsmouth.
Surgeon Captain Peter Fraser, pathologist said that death was due to a fractured skull and nothing could have been done to save her life.
Mr McIntyre a labourer of Thornhill, Southampton said he was putting up the Scaffolding with another man. He sent him for a piece of tubbing and was left supporting a pole with his hands. I felt the vibration through my hands and tried to hold on. I could not and the pole I was holding fell with the rest of the scaffolding and hit the “Wren” The only reason I can think why the scaffolding fell was that something hit it but I did not see anything hit it. It was leaning towards the building and if it had been insecure, it would fallen the other way.
Stella Violet Pegler SMITH. k/a Pegler-Smith. Chief Petty Officer 98910 WRNS, HMS Condor,
Born 3rd July 1927 to Victor Reginald and Dorothy Courtney Pegler-Smith, nee Jackson.
Died 14th July 1961 aged 34 at the Royal Marsden Hospital, Chelsea, London.
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Stella Violet PEGLER-SMITH of 16 The Glen, Eastcote, Middlesex, spinster, died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her father, retired bank official.
Her father served as Private as Victor Reginald Pegler Smith S/27924 Rifle Brigade and Private 377264, 8th London Regiment in WW1.
1962
Margaret Lillian LUKE. Wren 117641, WRNS on HMS Raleigh, Torpoint.
Born 16th July 1942 at Winchester, Hampshire to Joselyn Bernard and Joan Margaret Luke nee Dyke
She died 29th July 1962 aged 19 years. She and a rating both stationed at HMS Raleigh were ran down on the Trevol Road, near HMS Raleigh, by Jenkins who was driving home with his wife. February 1962 at the time of impact he was on the wrong side of the road. The male person was seriously injured. Jenkins was fined £50 and was given a seven year driving ban.
She is at rest in Holybrook Cemetery, Southampton
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Margaret Lillian LUKE of 39 Coxford Road, Maybush Southampton.
Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her mother.
The following some extract taken from the Cornish Guardian dated Thursday 01 November 1962
A Torpoint commercial traveller was fined £50 and was given a seven year driving ban
He was J Jenkins and it was alleged that he had knocked naval rating Holland and Miss Margaret Lillian Luke both from HMS Raleigh. Miss Luke died from her injuries
When the case opened on Tuesday the court was told how the two pedestrians, walking from Antony back to their station on June 29 were nocked down by a passing car alleged to have been driven by Jenkins.
Miss Margaret Lillian Luke stationed at HMS Raleigh a shore establishment at Torpoint had been walking down Trevol Road towards the station with a naval rating Holland. They had been seen on their way to the station about 11 pm by other ratings. Jenkins’s car was seen by others being pushed into the side of the road by Jenkins and his wife. Further back on the footpath which would been on Jenkins’s off-side. Holland and Mis Jenkins were found. Holland recovered from his injuries, but Miss Luke died.
1963
Maureen Ruby LANCASTER. Wren, Radio Electrical Mechanician (REM) 119854 WRNS of HMS Seahawk.
Born 21 February 1941 to William and Ruby Eileen Lancaster, nee Myles.
Died 21 October 1963 age 22 years,
Some of the following extract was taken from West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser dated Thursday 12 December 1963
Steered His Car To His Death.
Christopher John Barry Miles aged 24 of St Helier, Jersey steered his fast moving car into a lorry to end his life. A jury returned that verdict at an inquest at Helston on Friday, into a collision in which Mile’s cousin, Marjorie Ruby Lancaster aged 22 of Thornton, Blackpool a Wren stationed at Culdrose also died. The verdict on her was one of accidental death. The jury exonerated the driver of the lorry from all blame for his collision, which occurred between Culdrose and Helston hospital on the evening of October 21
Miss J Heatherfield a Wren said she and Miss Lancaster joined the Service together and were close friends. “I knew of her association with Christopher Miles,” she continued. 2During a telephone call from Jersey she broke off that association. At about 6.30 the night of the crash I found her crying in her cabic. She said she had been out with Chris in her car that afternoon and he had threatened to kill himself with the car. Then came a telephone call from him and after that she told me she was going out with to try to dissuade him”
Delivering the jury’s verdict, the foreman Mr Gilbert said they were unanimous that though there was no evidence that Miles intended to destroy himself and used the accident to do so, they did not feel there was conclusive evidence that he intended to bring about the girl’s death as well.
Carol Ann FRANCIS. Wren on HMS Dauntless.
Born 1947
Died 02 December 1965 aged 18 years in the registration district of Reading, Berkshire.
No further information, found.
1966
Christine Mary HUNT. Wren 121448, WRNS on HMS Vernon.
Born 1st September 1947 to Thomas John and Janet Hunt, nee Dear of the Black Swan Inn, New Road Spalding
Died 24th February 1966 aged 18 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire.
At rest in Spalding Parish Churchyard, Lincolnshire
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Christine Mary HUNT of the Black Swan Hotel, New Road, Spalding Lincolnshire. Died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her father, hotel manager.
The following extract taken from a newspaper cutting of the Lincolnshire Free Press dated Tuesday March 1966
Royal Navy honours for Spalding WRNS girl. Eighteen year old Christine Hunt the Spalding girl serving with W.R.N.S. who died in a Portsmouth Naval Hospital last week after being injured in a road accident was buried with Royal Navy honours at Spalding on Friday.
Royal Marines and sailors from Portsmouth provided the escort as the hearse made its way through Spalding from the parish church to the cemetery where the interment took place
Traffic halted in the Market Place and shoppers stood in silence as the procession headed by a car laden with floral tributes moved slowly into New Road and passed Christine’s home, the Black Swan Hotel where her parents Mr. and Mrs Thomas Hunt are licensees.
A Naval Chaplain, the Rev B.B.G. Marshall from Portsmouth, conducted a short service at the graveside before the Union Jack was removed from the coffin which was then slowly lowered into its final resting place by three sailors and three marines who had marched as escort.
Present at the service were several of Miss Hunt’s W.R.N.S. colleagues from Portsmouth, accompanied by officers.
Helen Margaret RUSK, Petty Officer Wren 114818. WRNS at Royal Marine Barracks, Eastney, Hampshire
Born 23rd October 1938 at Hackney, London to Alexander A and Margaret Agnes Rusk, nee, Mair
Died 5th April 1966 aged 27. Royal Navy Cemetery, Haslar, Clayhall Road, Gosport, Hampshire
Celia Elizabeth DODSON. Leading Wren 119966 WRNS on HMS Seahawk, Royal Navy. Born 30th September 1942 to Herbert Frederick and Mabel Louisa Dodson, nee Jordan
Died 29th May 1966 aged 23 years at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truo, Hampshire.
The Wills and Probate have the following. She resided at Hall Cottages, Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire and died at The Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro, Cornwall
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Celia Elizabeth DODSON of Hall Cottages, Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire.
She died on date and place stated. Her effects went to her father, estate manager.
The following extract taken from the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser dated Thursday 28 July 1966
Put warning signs at this blackspot, say inquest jury.
A suggestion that warning signs should be placed at “a notorious black spot” on the Redruth – Helston road or, alternatively, that reflector should be fitted into the hedge was made by the jury at a Truro inquest on Thursday. The inquest was on Leading Wren Celia Elizabeth Dodson (23) stationed at RNAS Culdros.
She died a few hours after the car in which she was a passenger was in a head-on crash with a car driven by Mr Daddow of Redruth. The crash occurred at about 11 pm, on Saturday May 28 near the entrance to Forest Farm, Pencoys, Four Lanes where according to witnesses, the hedge “juts out” into the road.
The evidence showed that Mr Daddow’s car struck the hedge before veering across the road into the path of a car in which Miss Dodson was travelling.
Chief Inspector P. S. Hart who saw the accident agreed with Mr Sheldon-Allen, representing Mr Daddow that the place was “notorious black spot.”
1967
Helen Sandra CRAIGIE. Wren Writer 123874 WRNS of HMS Pembroke.
Born 18 September 1949 at r/d of Gateshead, County Durham to Benjamin D and Minnie Craigie, nee Welsh. Gateshead, County Durham.
Died 31 July 1967 age 17 years.
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Helen Sandra CRAIGIE of 01 Abinger Road, Woodingdean, Brighton.
Two Royal Naval personnel both killed in a train derailment ravelling at approximately 70 miles per hour near the Hither Green maintenance depot, London the 05 November 1967 at 21.16 hrs The cause of the accident was broken rail.
Betty LEWIS. Leading Wren 122056 WRNS of HMS President
Born 18 September 1941, residing at 04 Swan Terrace, Hastings
She was aged 26 years
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And, Geoffrey SELLINGS. Cook (S) 075199, Royal Navy.
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Resided at 23 East View Terrace, Sedlescombe, Sussex.
Following extract courtesy of Wikipedia.
On 5 November 1967, a busy Sunday evening train service from Hastings to London Charing Cross derailed near the Hither Green maintenance depot in London, between Hither Green and Grove Park railway stations. Of the twelve coaches, many full of standing passengers, eleven were derailed and four turned onto their sides, resulting in 49 fatalities and 78 injuries.
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1969
Carol Dorothy HOWE. Wren 123449 WRNS on HMS Seahawk.
Born 16th November 1944
Died 01 June 1969 age 24 years
Jean Sutherland RAE, (OBE) Chief Officer Wrens, (FONAC) Flag Officer, Naval Air Command, at Royal Naval Air Station, Lossiemouth, formerly HMS Condor .
Born 8th August 1918 died 3rd October 1969
Norah Isabel WHITTLE. Hd NNA, WRNS.
Born 01 January 1909 to James and Mary Whittle, nee Edgar.
1911 with her parents and siblings at 01 Fenwick Grove Morpeth, Northumberland.
1939 with her parents at Lyndhurst, Oswald Road, Morpeth.
Died 07 December 1969 age 60 years. Funeral was held at Cowden Crematorium, Kent.
