Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 25, 2010 18:47:08 GMT 12
Apparently Mrs Harriet Simeon of Remuera served as the Deputy Assistant Commodore of the Women's Royal Air Force in World War One.
Her husband was Major George Ernest Simeon (1864-1943), who'd moved to NZ as a young man with his family in 1885 and became a permanent staff member in the New Zealand Artillery. George and Harriet married in 1893, and both served in WWI. I don't think Harriet was born in NZ as her wedding notice lists here as the sixth daughter of the late John Sandland, Esq., of Shropshire, England, but her later life was certainly spent in Remuera. I guess the couple met in New Zealand and their wedding was in Dunedin, NZ. So I wonder how she ended up in the WRAF in WWI, and how she climbed to such a high position.
The couple's nephew was Rear-Admiral Charles Barrington Simeon, who as a Captain was in command of H.M.S. Renown when she was in action early in WWII with the Scharnhorst off the coast of Norway
Her husband was Major George Ernest Simeon (1864-1943), who'd moved to NZ as a young man with his family in 1885 and became a permanent staff member in the New Zealand Artillery. George and Harriet married in 1893, and both served in WWI. I don't think Harriet was born in NZ as her wedding notice lists here as the sixth daughter of the late John Sandland, Esq., of Shropshire, England, but her later life was certainly spent in Remuera. I guess the couple met in New Zealand and their wedding was in Dunedin, NZ. So I wonder how she ended up in the WRAF in WWI, and how she climbed to such a high position.
The couple's nephew was Rear-Admiral Charles Barrington Simeon, who as a Captain was in command of H.M.S. Renown when she was in action early in WWII with the Scharnhorst off the coast of Norway
