Edith Frances Crowdy

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(25 August 1880 – 23 July 1947) was the deputy director of the

Women's Royal Naval Service The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the World War I, First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in ...

, and served as the first general secretary of the

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. She was born on 25 August 1880 at 79 Victoria Road,

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, London, one of the four daughters of solicitor James Crowdy and his wife, Mary Isabel Anne ( Fuidge). Of her sisters, Dame

Rachel Crowdy Dame Rachel Eleanor Crowdy, Mrs Thornhill, Order of the British Empire, DBE (3 March 1884, Paddington – 10 October 1964, Outwood, Surrey, Outwood, Surrey) was an English nurse and social reformer.Alice Prochaska‘Crowdy, Dame Rachel Eleanor (1 ...

was Principal Commandant of Voluntary Aid Detachments in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1919, and Isabel Crowdy, OBE, was the Assistant Director Inspector of Training, Women's Royal Navy Service from 1918. Her brother, James Fuidge Crowdy, MVO, was Assistant Secretary to the

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. Edith's remaining sister was Mary Crowdy, CBE.

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