The First Commissioned Officer of the British Women’s Royal Naval Service to be decorated for bravery is Third Officer Pamela Iris Nancy Grace, who has been awarded the M.B.E. She was asleep when a raider’s bomb blew out the wall of her room and smothered her with debris. Her only thought was for the safety of thirty W.R.N.S. ratings in the same building, whom she mustered and encouraged and marched to the safety of shelter. Third Officer Pamela Iris Nancy Grace, M.B.E.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3284, 5 July 1943, Page 6
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82The First Commissioned Officer of the British Women’s Royal Naval Service to be decorated for bravery is Third Officer Pamela Iris Nancy Grace, who has been awarded the M.B.E. She was asleep when a raider’s bomb blew out the wall of her room and smothered her with debris. Her only thought was for the safety of thirty W.R.N.S. ratings in the same building, whom she mustered and encouraged and marched to the safety of shelter. Third Officer Pamela Iris Nancy Grace, M.B.E. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3284, 5 July 1943, Page 6
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