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Oliver, K.M.L.
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K.M.L. Oliver  to  H.E. Oxborrow
Oliver,
Kathleen Mabel Lambton
 (Miss)
Miss K.M.L. Oliver		 1892 ?
New Barnet
-
C/O
 		01.01.1945
       
OSBORNE,
Nancy
 (Miss)
Miss N. Osborne		 ?
-
C/O
 		12.09.1939
07.09.1944 - (07.1945) Chief Officer WRNS, Portland Area & Staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Portland [HMS Boscawen]
Overy,
Hilary Lucy
 (Miss)
Miss H.L. Overy		 27.11.1898
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11.1988
Kendal, Westmorland
C/O
 		28.09.1942
       

 
Owen,
Olive Daphne *
 (Miss)
Miss O.D. Owen
Daughter (with one brother) of Rev. David Tudor Owen (1882-1932), and Nancy Adela Taylor (1893-1981).
Married (04.1946, Bromley district, Kent) Lt. Michael Terence Coyne, RIN (30.09.1921 - 14.07.1982); two sons.

* Only in naval records showing with the additional first name Olive

(06?).1922
Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire
-
06.05.2014
Weymouth, Dorset
A/3/O 08.08.1943
3/O 1944?, seniority 08.08.1943 (reld 11/12.1945)
08.10.1940     enlisted WRNS [messenger in cypher/signals office, later plotter in operations room, HMS Skirmisher  (RN base, Milford Haven)]
01.1942     plotter in operations room Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
spring 1943     plotter in operations room, HMS Mentor (minesweeper base, Stornoway)
08.08.1943 - (04.)1944 plotter in operations room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)]
11.04.1944 - (01.)1945) plotter in operations room, Fort Southwick, Portsmouth [HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire)]
09?.1944     Tactical School in Liverpool
12.1944     sent to Dunoon to set up a special unit to train escort staff in the tactics required to counter the Japanese submarines
(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Published: A surfeit of aunts : a journey from Edwardian to modern time via the WRNS (2013).
Oxborrow,
Hazel Elaine
(née Bowser)
 (Mrs)
Miss H.L. Overy
Daughter of Idris John Bowser (1888-1961), and Mary Eliza Marks (1889-1970).
Married ((09?).1939, Staines district, Middlesex) Lt. Charles Ernest Oxborrow, DSC, RN (1916-1942), son of William Oxborrow (1885-1918), and Eliza Dewhirst (1888-1977).		 24.07.1912
Bridgend district, Glamorgan
-
10.09.1985
A/3/O 20.08.1944
3/O 1945?, seniority 20.08.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945)
17.09.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Revlis (degaussing establishment, Cairn Dhu House & Arden Caple Castle, Helensburgh)
28.05.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India)

 
       
 
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