Josephine Carr WRNS

[seaJane]

Remembering Wren Josephine Carr, who on this day in 1918 became the first member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service to die on active service when RMS Leinster was torpedoed by U-Boat off Ireland on her way to Holyhead, with the loss of 480 souls. 

[Fattyowls]

Not forgotten.

Pete.

[michaeldr]

Remembered with respect.

 

Wren Josephine Carr, a shorthand typist, was travelling with two other Wrens; Maureen Waters and a Miss Barry. The latter two Wrens had gone up onto the deck and “were seated on the starboard side near the bow when the ship was struck on the port side.” [details from 'Torpedoed! The RMS Leinster Disaster' by Philip Lecane, Periscope Publishing Ltd., 2005, ISBN 1-904381-30-8]

[MaureenE]

A page about Josephine Carr https://www.rmsleinster.com/people/CARR_Josephine.htm from the website https://www.rmsleinster.com/index.htm

"Josephine enrolled in the Wrens on the 16th September, 1918, giving her occupation as ‘Shorthand Typist’. It is not known if she knew Maureen Waters or Lilian Barry, who enrolled on the 1st October, but all three travelled on the RMS Leinster on the 10th October, presumably to their first posting. The events of that disaster were described by Maureen Waters in a letter to her parents, published by the Cork Examiner. She reported that she and Lilian Barry went on deck, leaving Josephine in the Reading Room of the ship. It was the last time she saw her as Josephine did not survive the sinking, and no trace of her body was ever found.

Josephine Carr is remembered as the first member of the Wrens to lose their life in the war".

Maureen

[seaJane]

Thank you both.