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Administrative / biographical background
Franklin was born at Gillingham in 1895. Her father R.F. Franklin became Secretary to the Superintendent at Devonport Dockyard in 1901 and still held this post in 1922. Before enrolling in the WRNS in March 1918, Franklin worked as a civilian in the office of the Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth and as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) cook in the Military Hospital at Plymouth. As a WRNS officer she gained a senior position as a cypher officer on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth. In December 1918 she was promoted to the rank of deputy principal and re-appointed to Plymouth. Notice of her award of the MBE (Military) appeared in ‘The London Gazette’ on 9 May 1919 and she attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 26 June 1919. At the time of her demobilization in October 1918 she was on the staff of Admiral Sir Cecil Fiennes Thursby at Plymouth (see THY collection in Manuscripts). She then trained as a nurse at King's College Hospital and in 1927 joined Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. She was at Hong Kong at the time of the Japanese invasion in 1941 and spent the rest of the Second World War as a POW. In the period 1947-1950 she was Matron-in-Chief of the QARNNS. (See service record reference ADM 318/111 at TNA and obituary in the 23 April 1987 issue of 'The Times'.)