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  "description": "Nancy was amongst the first group of women to be enlisted into the WRNZNS and entered service as a Probationary Wren at HMNZS Philomel on 15 July 1942 and issued service number 11. ",
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  "textContent": "> We sadly acknowledge the passing of Nancy ‘Pat’ Clothier at the age of 106. Nancy was born in Christchurch on 11 April 1920.\n>\n> In 1942 on her 22nd birthday, the establishment of the WRNZNS was approved by the War Cabinet.\n>\n> Nancy was amongst the first group of women to be enlisted into the WRNZNS and entered service as a Probationary Wren at HMNZS Philomel on 15 July 1942 and issued service number 11.\n>\n> She would serve as a shorthand typist and then telegraphist.\n>\n> She was first based in Wellington at the Naval Office as a typist but then was transferred to the naval radio station in Waiouru as a telegraphist.\n>\n> She was confirmed as an Able Wren then promoted to Petty Officer Wren.\n>\n> With the demobilising of the RNZN she remained in service in the immediate postwar period until her service engagement ended on 15 April 1946.\n>\n>  She was one of the first and one of the longest serving Wrens in the second world war.\n>\n> RNZN\n\nRead More",
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