Personnel Profile
Katharine Furse
Director of the WRNS
Katharine Furse served in a role connected with the Women's Royal Naval Service during first world war. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with organization and leadership of the wrns. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Katharine Furse belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.