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E.R. Bamber   to  H.M.A. Buckmaster
Bamber, Elizabeth Reid (née Halliday) (Mrs.) Married (27.03.1943, Cathedral Church of All Saints, Cairo) Lt. Alexander Thomson Bamber, RM.	16.07.1917 -	Wren ? 3/O 16.03.1941 A/2/O 01.12.1943 2/O 1944?, seniority 01.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	? - (12.1941) HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 11.04.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Nile (RN Base, Alexandria) 18.10.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed
Barclay, Madeleine (Miss) Born as Madeleine Victorine Bayard. Daughter of Adele Suzanne Bayard, of Santeny, France.	21.02.1911 Paris, France - 01.01.1943 (KIA) [age 31] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 2]	1/O ?	1940 - 01.01.1943 was on the French merchant vessel "Le Rhin" with which she escaped to the UK, being renamed HMS Fidelity (special service vessel) and serving on SOE operations; she was commissioned in the WRNS and was killed when the ship was topedoed & sunk by U-435 off the Azores
Bate, Kathleen Hay (née Douglas) (Mrs.)	21.10.1900 - 09.2001 West Berks, Berkshire	C/O 13.05.1942
Bell, Grace [Ellen Effingham] (née Laughton) (Mrs) Youngest daughter (with three brothers and one sister) of Sir John Knox Laughton, KCB (1830-1915), and his 2nd wife Maria Josepha de Los Angeles de Alberti (1863?-1946). Sister of Dir. Dame Vera Laugton Mathews, DBE, WRNS. Married 1st (1915) John Russell Little (1893-1917; killed in action). Married 2nd (26.08.1918, Broxwood, Herefordshire) Harry Graham Bell (20.10.1888 - 02.1950), eldest son of Maj. & Mrs Bell, of Chepstow; three sons (Maj. Hubert Graham Bell, MBE).	28.12.1889 Hammersmith, London - 10.12.1975 Fuengirola, Spain [English Cemetery, Malaga] (died following a fall when her walking stick broke)	1/O 07.09.1939 C/O 29.04.1940 Supt. 03.04.1942 CBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 [investiture 23.07.46]	Education: Convent Schools; King's College, London University. 1915 - 1919 Women's Forestry Corps (Travelling Officer for Wales and West of England) 09.1939 - 01.1946 Women's Royal Naval Service: (04.1940) - (02.)1941 HMS President III (HQ for personnel at defensively equipped merchant ships) 1941 - (12.1941) HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) 03.04.1942 - (10.)1944 on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, The Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] 17.11.1944 - (07.1945) on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
Becquet, Joy May (Miss)	see:	Lough, Joy May (née Becquet) (Mrs)
Blagrove, Edith Gordon (née Lowe) (Mrs) Daughter of William Duncan Lowe, writer to the signet, of Edinburgh. Married 1st  (06.04.1921) Cdr. (later R.Adm.) Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove, RN (1887-1939); two daughters (one of whom, Mary A. Blagrove, married Lt. Sir Anthony R.D. Twysden, Bt., and later Capt. Peter G.C. Dickens, RN). Married 2nd (21.01.1948, Chapel of RN College, Greenwich) Adm. Sir Eric James Patrick Brind, RN (1892-1963).	05.11.1895 St George district, Edinburgh, Scotland - 14.02.1979 Tonbridge district, Kent [St Michael and All Angels Churchyard Withyham, East Sussex]	1/O 23.11.1939 C/O 15.11.1940 Supt. 05.02.1945 (reld 25.01.1947)	(04.1940) - (06.)1941 HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) 21.07.1941 - (08.)1943 Chief Officer WRNS, West of Scotland [HMS St Andrew (RN base, Oban)] 06.10.1943 - (04.)1944 in charge WRNS, HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) & on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber 02.05.1944 - (07.1945) in charge WRNS, HMS Pembroke V (secret base WRNS, Bletchley Park, London) 18.10.1945 - (04.1946) in charge WRNS, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
Blundell, Daphne Mary (Miss)	19.08.1916 Northwood, Middlesex - 05.2004 Watford, Hertfordshire	2/O 01.04.1945 Supt. 1967 Comdt. 1970 (retd 1973)   CB 1972	Education: St Helen's School, Northwood; Bedford College, London.       worked for LCC as Child Care Organiser 11.1942     joined WRNS 1943     commissioned       served in Orkneys, HMS Lanka Ceylon, E Africa 1954 - 1956 Malta 1964 - 1967 Staff of Flag Officer Naval Air Command 1967 - 1969 Staff of Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth 1969 - 1970 Superintendent WRNS Training and Drafting 1970 - 1973 Director, Women's Royal Naval Service 1970 - 1973 Hon. ADC to the Queen
Bois, Marjorie Gillespy (Miss) Youngest daughter (with one sister) of Percy Bois (1856-1946).	(12?).1900 Hastings district, Sussex - 08.11.1964 Verney Cottage, Liss, Hampshire	1/O 19.06.1939 C/O 01.10.1939 A/Supt. 27.03.1946 OBE 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45	24.08.1939 - (01.)1945 Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory III (accounting section, Portsmouth)] (07.1945)     HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) * 27.03.1946 - (04.1946) Superintendent WRNS, The Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Boyd, Violet Constance Sophie (Mrs)	? -	Supt. 12.04.1942   CBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46	15.11.1944 - (07.1945) Superintendent WRNS, The Nore [HMS Pembroke]
Buckmaster, Hilda Mary Adela (Miss)	(03?).1897 Acton, Middlesex -	C/O 12.03.1940

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