About Winifred Dakyns
Lived 1875 – 1960 (aged 84). Winifred Dakyns was a British military officer.
Winifred Dakyns CBE (née Pattinson, 1875-1960) was a British naval officer during World War I and assistant director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) from December 1917 until the WRNS was disbanded in 1919 (to be revived in 1939).
She was born on 16 September 1875 in Gateshead and educated at Gateshead High School and Newnham College, Cambridge.
She worked with Katharine Furse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and then in the earliest days of the WRNS.
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Who was Winifred Dakyns?
English naval officer (1875-1960)
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Winifred Dakyns was born on 16 September 1875.
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Winifred Dakyns died on 22 January 1960.
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Winifred Dakyns was a military officer.
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Winifred Dakyns was British.
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