Winifred Moberly

[1] She was born in Calcutta, British India on 1 April 1875, the ninth child and fourth daughter of Charles Morris Moberly (1837–1897), an officer in the Madras Staff Corps, and his wife, Eliza Augusta Dorward (1841–1909), the daughter of James Dorward of Trichinopoly.

[1] Her elder sister Ethel Charlotte Moberly was married to the Russian-born British novelist Fred Whishaw, and Winifred visited them in St Petersburg in her younger years.

[2][5] In October 1917 she was appointed area secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association in Calais.

There she helped set up recreation huts and canteens for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.

She held this role until July 1918 and was awarded the British War Medal for this work.