OBITUARIES

In Memoriam – Wendy Karen Cunningham (née Eyre) 25 May 1958 – 13 May 2023 ‘Pull up a bollard and I’ll spin you a dit…’ Allow me to whisk you […]

Irene ‘Renee’ Causer 17 July 1923 to 15 August 2023 Renee lived in Preston and joined the WRNS during WWII serving 1942 -1946 in the Fleet Air Arm. Her training […]

During this period of national mourning, today marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth and sadly the death of POWren Telegraphist Ellen Whittall who […]

Jeanette ‘Ginny’ Carr 18 August 1941 – 28 June 2023 Jeanette grew up in the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire countryside. She joined the WRENS in the summer of 1959, three months […]

Marion Dytor 30 October 1922 – 6 December 2022 Marian Honora Cecilia Cronin was born in Liverpool on 30th October 1922 to Denis John Cronin and Georgina Kavanagh. She had […]

Rosie Wilson OBE 1950 – 2023 In thinking of what I should say in this brief tribute to that force of nature that went by the name of Rosie Wilson, […]

Doris Vera Ensoll (née Williams) 1923-2023 Mum wanted to do her bit for the war, and perhaps also to escape her duties as eldest daughter in a household of six […]

LAST WORD Mary “Stephanie” Higham (née Pigott) 1920 – 2023 Stephanie was born on 29th October 1920 in London and spent her early years travelling with her parents and siblings […]

Margaret Kliskey 1933 – 2023 Published below are Margaret’s memoirs My Life in the Wrens 1953 – 1957 As an only child living on a farm in the country I […]

2nd World war Wren, who became a renowned pony breeder, exhibitor and judge Margaret Runcie, who died on December 23rd 2022 aged 97, was a leading figure in the UK […]

Kathleen was born in 1926 to Kate and Percy Newman, she was the youngest of three sisters. Her elder sisters were Molly and Rosemary – who was my grandmother. They […]

Chief Officer Elizabeth Mary Sunley (78) died on 5 October 2022 while on holiday in Italy. Born in 1944, Elizabeth joined the WRNS after a secretarial course in London and […]

Julia Mansel Bennett (nee Lord) 20th September 1933 – 17th October 2022 Petty Officer WRN Signals served 1952–59 Julia was born in 1933 in Aberystwyth in West Wales one of […]

Christine Gale Lees (née Ecob), service number 115711, was born on the 28th of July 1940 at 29 Leicester Road, Blaby,Leicestershire. Chris joined the WRNS aged 18 in 1958 and […]

Hilda May Taylor (Lindley), Wren Lindley No 98009, was born in Webster Street, Bolton, Lancashire, on 16 August 1925, to Harry & Edith Lindley.  She excelled at school, though her […]

A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF GWYNETH (GWEN] FRYER (nee Johnson) A Reflection on the Service held for Gwen Fryer by Ann Boulton. Gwen services in the WRNS from 1958 […]

JOYCE ELSIE HARDCASTLE, May 2, 1921 to August 13, 2022 Joyce was born in Portsmouth, England to Pelham William Evans and Elsie Clara Evans, now deceased. She was predeceased by […]

VIVIEN   CATHERINE MARGARET   CRINGLE    (Nee – CREESE) Vivien was born in Oxford in 1949. Her father worked in East Africa and as Vivien grew-up, she could speak […]

Joan Stevenson nee Ozanne died on the 30th November 2021 aged 92. The time she served in the WRNS was one of the happiest times of her life and she […]

Joan Allen (Nee Hale) died on 18th January 2022 – aged 101, following a fall and subsequently contracting pneumonia.  Her close family were with her – she was bright and chatty […]

Ruby Nicoll-Heijmans was born in Dundee on the 16th March 1923 and died on the 22nd November 2021 aged 98, peacefully in her adopted home of Leiden in the Netherlands. She […]

Vera Manuel (nee Bonny) was born on the 16th December 1925 at East Runton in Norfolk. She joined the WRNS on 1st March 1944, her service number was 75396, and […]

Excerpt from the memoirs of Valerie Pinker   It was 1946, I was nearly nineteen and I was getting restless about my future. It would be years before I could […]

Mollie Macartney was a Stoll veteran and resident who has passed away at 95 years old.  Mollie was adored amongst young and old.  She embraced life and her infectious smile […]

Obituary: Betty O’Connell. The Wren who was in the first team at Bletchley Park to operate the Colossus Mk 1 that cracked Hitler’s ‘Lorenz’ messages The Times – 28 Sep […]

1945 – 2020     Felicity “Fizz” Sellers, nee Pearce Felicity “Fizz” Pearce joined the WRNS in 1964 at the age of 19 and served with the MT (Motor Transport) […]

1922 – 2021   Edith Bruce Weames, née Townson When I joined the WRNS in January 1977, my Aunt was so proud, I am sure she would have rejoined with […]

Served 1955 –1979   Fleet Chief Wren (QA) Sheila Jean Snowley Sheila Snowley was born in Norwich in April 1929 and was brought up in March, Cambridgeshire until she left […]

04/07/1945 – 14/02/2021   ‘Crossed the Bar’ Former Fleet Air Arm Wren flies off into the sunset Our ‘oppo’ Janet Dalton a former ‘Jenny Wren’ – WRNS and shipmate of […]

06/03/1930 – 14/02/2021   Kathlyn Bray, née Mason Kathlyn passed away peacefully on 14th February 2021. She joined the Wrens on 12 July 1949 and served in Portsmouth in the […]

1926 – 2021   Paddy Wall (née O’Brien) former Secretary of the AOW and a Vice President. I am sad to announce the passing of our mother Patricia Wall, she […]