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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1495/
- Published: 2026-06-01T18:30:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-01T18:30:27.000Z
- Description: Nancy was amongst the first group of women to be enlisted into the WRNZNS and entered service as a Probationary Wren at HMNZS Philomel on 15 July 1942 and issued service number 11.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> We sadly acknowledge the passing of Nancy ‘Pat’ Clothier at the age of 106\. Nancy was born in Christchurch on 11 April 1920\.   
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> In 1942 on her 22nd birthday, the establishment of the WRNZNS was approved by the War Cabinet.   
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> Nancy was amongst the first group of women to be enlisted into the WRNZNS and entered service as a Probationary Wren at HMNZS Philomel on 15 July 1942 and issued service number 11\.   
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> She would serve as a shorthand typist and then telegraphist.   
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> She was first based in Wellington at the Naval Office as a typist but then was transferred to the naval radio station in Waiouru as a telegraphist.   
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> She was confirmed as an Able Wren then promoted to Petty Officer Wren.   
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> With the demobilising of the RNZN she remained in service in the immediate postwar period until her service engagement ended on 15 April 1946.  
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> She was one of the first and one of the longest serving Wrens in the second world war.  
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