🌺 “She Served in Two Wars — And Died While Still on Duty” — The Story of Chief Officer Kathleen Ackerley, Women’s Royal Naval Service 🌺 Kathleen Ackerley was born in 1894 in Oxton, Birkenhead. She was the daughter of Harold and Eleanor Ackerley. The eldest of five children. Kathleen grew up in a comfortable Edwardian household. A life that might have followed a quiet path. But then war came. In 1916, at the age of twenty-two, Kathleen volunteered for service. She joined the Voluntary Aid Detac