Nora Dalrymple Burns MBE

[IgorStrav]

You're quite right, Graham, I was off in the wrong direction.

The Honours List says:

Norah Dalrymple Burns, Assistant in Finance Department, Ministry of Information

In WWII the Ministry of Information's function was as below - and you can't help thinking it would have been the same in WWI (only not as refined by experience as it was 20 years later)

"The Ministry's function was "To promote the national case to the public at home and abroad in time of war" by issuing "National Propaganda" and controlling news and information. It was initially responsible for censorship, issuing official news, home publicity and overseas publicity in Allied and neutral countries."

However, the Finance Department would surely only have been concerned with routine payments/invoices/reconciliation etc?

[s58roads]

From other sources I have concluded that she worked for the Syndicate Trading Co. of New York as manager of their London office in Southampton Row during the 1930s and up to her death in 1940.
Geoff

[IgorStrav]

From other sources I have concluded that she worked for the Syndicate Trading Co. of New York as manager of their London office in Southampton Row during the 1930s and up to her death in 1940.
Geoff

Well found, Geoff.

She was evidently very successful, and quite possibly unusual in achieving senior positions in times where it was much more difficult for a woman to do so.

A sad war casualty.