Euphemia Welby
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Euphemia Violet Welby (née Lyon), CBE, JP (b. 28 September 1891 - d. 6 May 1987) was named Supt. of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) on 12 June 1939. She was named CBE on 1 January 1944
[edit] Background
- 1914 - 1916 Hon. Sec. SS&AFA Devonport (later Hon. Sec. SS&AFA)
- 1916 - 1919 Red Cross Cook, Malta
- 1939 - 1945 WRNS service:
- 12 June 1939 - July 1945 on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
In civilian life, she did social work on committees in Plymouth and became Chairman of the Astor Institute and was a Justice of the Peace in Somerset, England in 1947.
[edit] Family
Euphemia Violet Lyon was married to Richard Martin Welby (b. 1886 - d. 1930), son of the Rev. Abraham Adlard Welby and Bertha Sobranoa; it is not clear if they had any children.
