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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).
In November 1917, Furse and several of her senior colleagues resigned and she was offered the post as Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS). The Royal Navy was the first of the armed forces to recruit women and since 1916 the Women's Royal Naval Service took over the role of cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, code experts and ...
Katharine Furse, the Director of the WRNS, with her secretary Miss M. Butcher. Dame Katherine Furse with Commodore Sir R Williams Bulkley at Crystal Palace, inspecting officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) about to be drafted to various stations.
Dame Katharine Furse. (1875-1952), Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service; nurse and nursing administrator; Director of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Sitter in 11 portraits. 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 ...
1875-1952. 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 ...
Katharine Furse became an active member of a London VAD in 1909. After the outbreak of war, Furse led the first VADs to France where they set up a Rest Station at Boulogne. At that Rest Station, they changed dressings and provided food and hot beverages for trainloads of soldiers in transit.
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.
