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L.M.S. Caddy  to  A. Curtis
Caddy, Lovell Mary [S] (née Scott) (Mrs.) Married ((09)).1927, Wirral, Cheshire) ... Caddy.	(09?).1902 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside -	C/O 29.11.1942
Cameron, Marian Louisa (Mrs)	? -	C/O 17.07.1939 MBE ?	02.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berks)
Carpenter, Joan (Miss)	? -	Supt. 19.06.1939 CBE 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43	05.08.1944 - (07.1945) Deputy Director Welfare, WRNS HQ, Admiralty [HMS Pembroke III]
Cartwright, Margaret Angela * (née Manners) (Mrs) Only daughter (with three brothers) of R.Adm. Sir Errol Manners, KBE, RN (1883-1953), and Florence Maud Harrison (1882-1926). Married (19.01.1940, Alverstoke, Gosport district, Hampshire) then Lt. (later Capt.) Edward Hugh Cartwright, RN (16.11.1910 - 29.10.1998); one son, two daughters. * In Navy Lists shown as: Cartwight, Angela Margaret	01.10.1918 Tiverton district, Somerset / Devon -	3/O 28.08.1939 A/2/O 13.06.1941 (discharged at own request 06.03.1945)	(03.1940) - (02.)1942 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 04.03.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow) (04.1944)     HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire) * (06.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Cary, [Mary] Philippa (Miss) Daughter of the Hon. Philip Plantaganet Cary (1895-1968), and Esther Mildred Leon (1899-1972). Married (23.04.1947, Westminster district, London) Hendry Desmond Graham Prittie (14.10.1912 - 26.06.1992); two sons, one daughter.	31.03.1922 Kensington district, London - 11.11.2014 Carna, Co. Galway, Ireland	A/3/O 27.02.1944 3/O 1945?, seniority 27.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	(04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 07.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Pembroke III (WRNS accounting base, London) 26.02.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi, India & Kandy, Ceylon) 15.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore)
Catchpool, Mary (Miss) Married (post-war) Reginald Charles Boxall (died 1967, aged 49); one son.	01.11.1919 Carlisle, Cumbria - 03.11.2001 Worthing, West Sussex	3/O 08.04.1944 2/O 15.10.1945 (reld < 04.1946)	23.05.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) (for security duty)
Cecil, Anne Mary Gascoyne  (Miss) Married (1945/46?) David Wilson, a Canadian naval officer.	29.07.1918 - 11.2010 still alive	Wren ? 3/O 22.04.1940 A/2/O 03.09.1941 2/O 26.10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)	(02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 08.09.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) 15.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Pembroke III (for WRNS training and drafting depots; duty at Princess Gardens)
Chatfield-Gilbert, Marie Isobel (Mrs.)	? -	C/O 01.01.1945
Cholmondeley, the Marchioness of; Sassoon, Sybil Rachel Betty Cecile Daughter of Sir Edward Albert Sassoon (1856-1912), 2nd Bt, and Baroness Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1865-1909). Sister of Rt.Hon. Sir Philip Sassoon, PC, 3rd Bt, GBE, MP. Married (06.08.1913) George Horatio Charles Cholmondeley (19.05.1883-16.09.1968), since 1938 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley; two sons, one daughter.	20.01.1894 London - 26.12.1989 Houghton Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk	C/O 12.11.1939 Supt. 09.02.1945 CBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 [investiture 28.10.47]	12.11.1939 - 1946 Chief Staff Offcier to Director WRNS, WRNS HQ, Admiralty [HMS Pembroke III] Literature: Peter Stansky. Sassoon : the worlds of Philip and Sybil (2003)
Chrystal, Catherine Macrae (Miss)	1918 Partick district, Glasgow City, Scotland - 1982 Largs district, Ayrshire, Scotland	A/3/O 05.03.1944 3/O 06.10.1944, seniority 05.03.1944	(04.1944) - (10.1944) HMS Spartiate II (WRNS training establishment, Tullichewan) * 20.12.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Holyhead) 27.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke, Audrey (Miss) Married Capt. (E) George Andrews Hewett, CBE, DSC, RN.	? - 09.2009	A/3/O 08.05.1944 3/O 1945?, seniority 08.05.1944	08.05.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (01.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * (04.1946)     HMS Pembroke III (WRNS accounting base, London) * Model, fashion journalist and public speaker. * indexed, but not listed as such
Cochrane, Euphemia Catherine * (Miss) Married (07.06.1957) Arthur Reynell Pack-Beresford (28.04.1906 - 26.05.1978), son (with one sister) of Reynell James Pack-Beresford (1872-1949), and Florence Leith (1875-1953); one child. * First names also in reversed order: Catherine Euphemia.	30.06.1920 - 11.05.1993 Carrowdore, Co. Down, Ireland	3/O 19.09.1943 (reld 16.12.1946)	19.09.1943 - 07.05.1945 HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) 12.05.1945 - (10.1946) HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 1950s     Second Officer, Women's RNVR
Colls, Betty Marion (Miss)	01.03.1911 Norwich district, Norfolk - 01.2001 North Walsham, Norfolk	A/3/O ? 3/O 15.11.1942	27.03.1943 - (06.1944) WRNS Headquarters [HMS Pembroke III] (06.1944)     on staff of Rear-Admiral Mulberry/Pluto on staff of ANCXF (Invasion of Normandy, 1944) [HMS Odyssey]
Coningham, Audrey Sylvia (Miss) Daughter of William Francis Meyrick Coningham (1888-1920), and Sylvia Clare Granville Allsop (1896-1932) [later Mrs Harry Sydney Radford]. Married (09.04.1946, Burnham, Weston super Mare district, Somerset) Maj. David John Hugh Roche, Indian Army (03.10.1916 - 03.1999), younger son of Col. Henry John Roche, CB (1864-1944), and Gladys Drake; five children.	12.07.1918 Brighton district, Sussex - 13.01.2009 Wingfield Nursing Home, Trowbridge, Wiltshire	3/O 23.01.1941 2/O 01.05.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946) MID 05.01.1943 life saving 06.42	1940     joined WRNS (trained as cypher officer) (04.1941) - (10.)1941 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (12.)1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Leigh (04.)1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) 30.06.1942     passenger on the submarine depot ship HMS Medway which was torpedoed on while being escorted from Alexandria to Haifa (06.1942) - (02.)1943 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) * 24.03.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Pembroke III (WRNS accounting base, London) 25.10.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) 13.10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) Emigrated to Kenya, 1947, returned to UK, 1975. * indexed, but not listed as such
Cooper, Joan (Miss) Married ((06?).1946, Horsham district) Lt. Norman MacLehose Barrow, RNVR; one son, two daughters.	22.08.1921 Bombay, India - 03.10.2007 Pembury, Kent	A/3/O 14.05.1944 3/O ?, seniority 14.05.1944 (reld < 04.1946)	14.05.1944 - 12.1944 HMS Watchful (RN base, Yarmouth) 13.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
Couch, Grace Northwood (Miss) Daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of Thomas Henry Couch (1866-1925), and Ida Gwendoline Hore (1873-1949).	21.12.1898 Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales - 30.03.1987 Pennard, Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales	3/O 25.09.1941 2/O 16.04.1943 (reld > 06.1944, < 10.1944)	10.11.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (serving in the Signal Distributing Office, Swansea) Published: (children's books) Little orphan Spikey (1943); Spikey's schoolday (1943); Princess Finny (1944); Queen of the jungle (1944); Chirrupy-chirpy (1945); Something like a lion (1945); Plain baby (1945); New girls at Lowmead (1945; with Deirdre O'Brien); Deep sea mokey (1947); Scarecrow Sambo (1947); Goblin (1947).
Cowie, Margaret Elizabeth (née Lawrenson) (Mrs.)	22.08.1918 - 03.2008 still alive	3/O 28.02.1942? 2/O 28.02.1944 1/O 01.01.1946	28.02.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) 03.07.1944 - (07.1945) in charge, WRNS, West Hartlepool [HMS Paragon (minesweepers base, Hartlepool)] 01.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary)
Coxon, Sybil Elizabeth (Miss) Daughter (with four sisters and one brother [Lt. (A) Neil Vaughan Marker Coxon, RNVR]) of William Marker Coxon (1879-), and Annie White (1880-).	07.11.1914 - 16.10.1945 (DOW air crash) [age 29] [Colombo (Liveramentu) Cemetery, Sri Lanka, 3.D.4]	Wren ? [12408] A/3/0 18.07.1943 3/O 18.02.1944, seniority 18.07.1943	25.07.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Spartiate II (WRNS training establishment, Tullichewan) (04.1944)     no appointment listed 26.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Tern (RN Air Station, Twatt, Orkney) 04.11.1944 - (12.)1944 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) 15.12.1944 - 16.10.1945 HMS Bambara (RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon) [died of wounds after an air crash while being passenger in an aircraft of 742 Squadron FAA at HMS Vairi (RN Air Station, Sullr, India)]
Craig, Mary Mackie (Miss) Married (1942?) El.Lt. John James Thompson, RNVR; ... children (one son?).	? -	Wren ? 3/O 12.10.1941 (reld > 02.1944, < 04.1944)	(12.1941) - (10.)1942 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) 30.10.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow) (08.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed
Currie, Agnes Jean "Nan" (Miss) Daughter (with five brothers and three sisters) of John Currie (1844-1905), of Glasgow, and Rachel Thomson (1861-1934), of Dundee. Sister of R.Adm. Robert Alexander Currie, CB, DSC and Bar, RN.	30.05.1899 Glasgow, Scotland - 17.10.1968 Chiddingston, Kent	2/O 12.10.1939 1/O 1940? C/O 27.07.1940 Supt. 21.02.1941 (reld 11.05.1946) CBE 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 [investiture 19.11.46]	Education: Laurel Bank School, Glasgow; The Mount School, York; also Switzerland; WRNS Officers' Training Course, Greenwich. Staff secretary of London department store John Lewis and Sons. 12.10.1939 - 11.05.1946 WRNS service: (12.)1939 - (05.)1940 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (06).1940 - (02.)1941 Chief Officer WRNS, HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) 21.02.1941 - 03.10.1943 on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 28.10.1943 - 27.01.1944 Superintendent WRNS, Eastern Fleet on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] [contracted a serious illness] 28.01.1944 - (06.)1944 Superintendent, WRNS Training [HMS Pembroke III] 25.08.1944 - (10.)1944 on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 20.11.1944 - (10.1945) on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory III] (CBE) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Curtis, Amy (Miss) Youngest daughter of George Curtis, of Old Orchard Rathfarnham.	1895 ? - 29.07.1970	1/O 05.10.1939 C/O 01.11.1939 Supt. 07.12.1939 (retd > 10.1944, < 01.1945) CBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 [investiture 19.11.46] MBE ? ? LoP 1944? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	1915 - 1920 served in the war as Assistant Administrator, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps 05.10.1939     commissioned, WRNS 18.12.1939 - 20.11.1944 Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portmouth [HMS Victory] Worked in the Resettlement Advice Service in the Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1945-1948. Chief Administrative Officer, Women's Land Army, 06.1948-1950.

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