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Walker, Edith Felicity (Miss)	see:	Wilkinson, Edith Felicity (Mrs)
Wallace-Smith, Jessie Vida (Miss)	(09?).1901 Islington district, Greater London -	C/O 11.10.1943
Warden, Marjorie (Mrs.)	? -	C/O 06.09.1943
Watson, Katherine Agnes (Miss)	21.06.1918 Ceylon - 13.06.2008 hospital, Oxford	A/3/O 25.12.1943 3/O 1945?, seniority 25.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	26.03.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
Welby, Euphemia Violet (née Lyon) (Mrs.)	28.09.1891 Stoke Damerel district, Devon - 06.05.1987 Tintinhull nr. Yeovil, Somerset	Supt. 12.06.1939   CBE 01.01.1944 New Year 44 JP	1914 - 1916 Hon. Sec. SS&AFA Devonport (later Hon. Sec. SS&AFA) 1916 - 1919 Red Cross Cook, Malta 1939 - 1945 WRNS service: 12.06.1939 - (07.1945) on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake]       social work on committees in Plymouth and Chairman Astor Institute. JP Somerset, 1947
Wenden, Jane (Miss)	? -	C/O 01.01.1945
Wilkinson, Edith Felicity "Felix" (née Walker) (Mrs.) Daughter of Norman Duguid Walker (1880-1961), solicitor, and Ada Russell (1879-1977), of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham. Sister of: Lt.Cdr. J.R.D. Walker, RNVR, Lt. R.F. Walker, RNVR, Lt. G.H. Walker, RNVR, Lt. (A) F.N. Walker, RNVR, Lt. R.J. Walker, RNVR. Married (23.07.1941) Capt. (then Lt.) John Valentine Wilkinson, RN; one son, two daughters.	08.09.1916 Newcastle, Castle Ward district, Northumberland - 12.2008 still alive	Prob. 3/O 26.11.1940 3/O 02.1941, seniority 26.11.1940 (reld < 06.1944)	(02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (06.1943) - (04.1944) no appointment listed possibly at some point Cypher Officer at Liverpool [HMS Eaglet?] Her sister Margaret Anne "Peggy" Walker (03.05.1909 Newcastle, Northumberland - 25.05.1984 Wayland, Norfolk) also served in the WRNS (in the ranks) as a transport driver in Newcastle. After the war, she taught French at a secondary school in Jersey until her retirement. She never married and had no children.
Williams, Frances Hilary (Mrs.)	26.01.1901 ? - 05.1989 ? Haverfordwest, Dyfed ?	C/O 30.08.1943
Williams, Joan Harvey (Miss) Daughter of William Bennett Williams (1888-1983), Major in the Artillery in World War I, and Adelaide M. Roberts. Married Lt. Graham Ofield, RNVR; one daughter, one son.	c. 1919 - 12.2008 still alive	A/3/O 27.06.1943 3/O 18.02.1944, seniority 27.06.1943 (rled < 04.1946)	27.06.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Warren (Combined Operations base, Largs) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 27.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
Woollcombe, [Dame] Jocelyn May (Miss)	09.05.1898 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 30.01.1986 Plymouth, Devon	C/O 08.1939 Supt. 14.05.1940   DBE 02.01.1950 New Year 50   CBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44	Education: Moorfield, Plymouth 1916 - 1919 Admiralty, NID as Clerk 08.1939 joined WRNS, enrolled as Chief Officer 1943 - 1946 Deputy Director Manning, WRNS HQ, Admiralty [HMS Pembroke III] 1946 - 1950 Director, WRNS Hon. ADC to the King, 1949. General Secretary, British Council for Aid to Refugees (Hungarian Section), 1957-58. Governor, The Sister Trust, 1956-65; Gov., WRNS Benevolent Trust, 1942-67; Pres., Assoc. of Wrens 1959-81
Wright, Dorothy Edith (Miss)	see:	Dunsby, Dorothy Edith (Mrs)

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