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Furse, Katharine (1875–1952) English pioneer who was the first commandant of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS). Name variations: Dame Katharine Furse. Born Katharine Symonds in 1875; died in 1952; fourth daughter of John Addington Symonds; educated privately; married C.W. Furse, in 1900. The fourth daughter of English scholar John ...
Address. Yockley House, Camberley, Surrey 1908. Biography. British nursing administrator; daughter of the author John Addington Symonds (1840-1893); appointed Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service in 1917 and awarded the OBE the same year; wife of the artist Charles Wellington Furse (q.v.); publisher of a photogravure reproduction of one ...
Katharine Furse (1875-1952) joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1909. On the outbreak of the First World War, Katharine was chosen to be the head of the first VAD unit to be sent out to France, arriving on 21 September 1914. In 1917 she became the Director of the newly formed Women’s Royal Naval Service. As well as three service medals, Katharine was awarded the GBE and became a Dame ...
Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service; nurse and nursing administrator; Director of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts A pioneer in the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs). In 1914 Furse was sent to France to lead the first VAD unit to be sent abroad and later that year she was promoted to commandant-in-chief. After becoming frustrated at her lack of reforming ...
English: Dame Katharine Furse, GBE, RRC (née Symonds; 23 November 1875 – 25 November 1952) was a British nursing and military administrator. She led the British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment force during the First World War, and served as the inaugural Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (1917–19). Furse was also the first Director of the World Association of Girl Guides and ...
INTRODUCTION. In the summer of 1939 Virginia Woolf and Katharine Furse renewed acquaintance begun more than forty years before in the schoolroom Hyde Park Gate. Each was working on a biography and needed the help: Woolf wanted permission to quote from a letter of Roger Fry Furse's father, John Addington Symonds, while Furse was writing memoirs ...
28. Apr. 2022 · Dame Katharine Furse, GBE, RRC (née Symonds; 23 November 1875, Bristol – 25 November 1952, London), founder of the English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) force, was the daughter of the poet and critic John Addington Symonds and Janet Catherine North. Her aunt was the painter Marianne North.
