Career
Of the Women"s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) on 12 June 1939. She was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1944. Parents: Admiral Herbert Lyon & Frances Violet Inglis
1914 - 1916: Honorary
Secretary
Steamship&American Finance Association Devonport (later Honorary Security Steamship/American Finance Association)
1916 - 1919: Red Cross Cook, Malta
1939 - 1945: WRNS service:
12 June 1939 - July 1945: Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
In civilian life, she did social work on committees in Plymouth and became Chairman of the Astor Institute and was a Justice of the Peace in Somerset, England in 1947. Euphemia Violet Lyon married Richard Martin Welby (1886—1930), son of the Review Abraham Adlard Welby and Bertha Sobranoa.
The couple had four children.
Euphemia Welby died in 1987, aged 95.
