Isabel Crowdy

Isabel Crowdy OBE (1878[1] - 25 July 1941[2]) was an English Women's Royal Naval Service member and social reformer.

[3] During World War I, she supported the Voluntary Aid Detachment, where her sister Rachel was a member, along with her friend Katharine Furse.

[3] She was awarded the OBE on 23 June 1918 for her work as Commandant of Voluntary Aid Detachment Area for the British Red Cross Commission in France.

[6] In 1920, Isabel was appointed General Secretary of the newly formed Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women, where she became a member of the Council in 1922.

[3] In the early 1930s she spent some time in Australia on the staff of Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game, Governor of New South Wales,[8] where she was estimated 'probably the most popular private secretary in Government House annals.