First WRNS killed on active duty
Ordinary Wren Josephine Carr, WRNS, was the first Wren to die in the line of duty. Daughter of Samuel and Kathleen Carr of 4 Bethesda Road, Blackrock, she had enlisted in the Women's Royal Naval Service, or WRNS, on 17 September 1917, service number G 4985 and was rated as a Clerk, a shorthand typist. Given the exacting standards of the fledgling service, she must have been an extraordinary young woman. On the tenth of October, 1918, as the World War was drawing to a close, she and two fellow Wrens were travelling on RMS Leinster, a mailboat between Dublin and Holyhead, Wales as part of their duties. She was seen last by Wren Maureen Waters sitting in the Reading Room at the time that the ship cast off. While exiting Dublin Bay and only an hour after leaving Carlisle Pier, the Leinster was hit twice by torpedoes fired by UB-123. The ship sank in eight minutes and Wren Carr's body was never recovered. She was the first WRNS casualty "on active service." Her name appears upon Plaque 31 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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Service No: G/4985
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Women's Royal Naval Service
Daughter of Kathleen Carr, of 4, Bethesda Row, Blackrock Rd., Cork, and the late Samuel Carr.
Ordinary Wren Josephine Carr, WRNS, was the first Wren to die in the line of duty. Daughter of Samuel and Kathleen Carr of 4 Bethesda Road, Blackrock, she had enlisted in the Women's Royal Naval Service, or WRNS, on 17 September 1917, service number G 4985 and was rated as a Clerk, a shorthand typist. Given the exacting standards of the fledgling service, she must have been an extraordinary young woman. On the tenth of October, 1918, as the World War was drawing to a close, she and two fellow Wrens were travelling on RMS Leinster, a mailboat between Dublin and Holyhead, Wales as part of their duties. She was seen last by Wren Maureen Waters sitting in the Reading Room at the time that the ship cast off. While exiting Dublin Bay and only an hour after leaving Carlisle Pier, the Leinster was hit twice by torpedoes fired by UB-123. The ship sank in eight minutes and Wren Carr's body was never recovered. She was the first WRNS casualty "on active service." Her name appears upon Plaque 31 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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Service No: G/4985
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Women's Royal Naval Service
Daughter of Kathleen Carr, of 4, Bethesda Row, Blackrock Rd., Cork, and the late Samuel Carr.
First WRNS killed on active duty
Ordinary Wren Josephine Carr, WRNS, was the first Wren to die in the line of duty. Daughter of Samuel and Kathleen Carr of 4 Bethesda Road, Blackrock, she had enlisted in the Women's Royal Naval Service, or WRNS, on 17 September 1917, service number G 4985 and was rated as a Clerk, a shorthand typist. Given the exacting standards of the fledgling service, she must have been an extraordinary young woman. On the tenth of October, 1918, as the World War was drawing to a close, she and two fellow Wrens were travelling on RMS Leinster, a mailboat between Dublin and Holyhead, Wales as part of their duties. She was seen last by Wren Maureen Waters sitting in the Reading Room at the time that the ship cast off. While exiting Dublin Bay and only an hour after leaving Carlisle Pier, the Leinster was hit twice by torpedoes fired by UB-123. The ship sank in eight minutes and Wren Carr's body was never recovered. She was the first WRNS casualty "on active service." Her name appears upon Plaque 31 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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Service No: G/4985
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Women's Royal Naval Service
Daughter of Kathleen Carr, of 4, Bethesda Row, Blackrock Rd., Cork, and the late Samuel Carr.
Ordinary Wren Josephine Carr, WRNS, was the first Wren to die in the line of duty. Daughter of Samuel and Kathleen Carr of 4 Bethesda Road, Blackrock, she had enlisted in the Women's Royal Naval Service, or WRNS, on 17 September 1917, service number G 4985 and was rated as a Clerk, a shorthand typist. Given the exacting standards of the fledgling service, she must have been an extraordinary young woman. On the tenth of October, 1918, as the World War was drawing to a close, she and two fellow Wrens were travelling on RMS Leinster, a mailboat between Dublin and Holyhead, Wales as part of their duties. She was seen last by Wren Maureen Waters sitting in the Reading Room at the time that the ship cast off. While exiting Dublin Bay and only an hour after leaving Carlisle Pier, the Leinster was hit twice by torpedoes fired by UB-123. The ship sank in eight minutes and Wren Carr's body was never recovered. She was the first WRNS casualty "on active service." Her name appears upon Plaque 31 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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Service No: G/4985
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Women's Royal Naval Service
Daughter of Kathleen Carr, of 4, Bethesda Row, Blackrock Rd., Cork, and the late Samuel Carr.
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