Euphemia Welby

Euphemia Violet Welby, CBE, JP was commissioned as a superintendent in the Women's Royal Naval Service on 12 June 1939. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1944.

Background

Parents: Admiral Herbert Lyon & Frances Violet Inglis

1914 – 1916: Hon. Sec. SS&AFA Devonport
1916 – 1919: Red Cross Cook, Malta
1939 – 1945: WRNS service:
12 June 1939 – July 1945: Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

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.

Family

Euphemia Violet Lyon married Richard Martin Welby, a naval officer who rose to the rank of Captain, who was the son of the Rev. Abraham Adlard Welby and Bertha Sobranoa. The couple had four children.

Death

Euphemia Welby died in 1987, aged 95. She is buried alongside her mother in the graveyard of All Saints' Church, Freshwater.