LACW Edith Wind Simonsen

Edith Wind Simonsen was one of the Danish volunteers in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. She enlisted in late 1941 or 1942 and ended service as Leading Aircraftwoman. Little is know of her service.

Edith Wind Simonsen was born on 16 April 1914 in Nakskov, the daughter of Kristen Martin Wind Simonsen and Cilia Kristina Simonsen (née Hansen).^[1]

Simonsen worked as a domestic in Birmingham at the outbreak of war in 1939.^[2]

Simonsen volunteered for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War (2065802).^[3] The exact date is not known, but the service number indicate that it was in between May 1941 and August 1942.^[4] There is no information on her service at this point, but at the end of the war she held the rank of Leading Aircraftwoman.^[5]

Endnotes

[1] DNA: Parish register, Nakskov, Skt Nikolaj sogn.

[2] Ancestry: 1939 England and Wales Register.

[3] Frihedsmuseets database over søfolk og soldater i allieret tjeneste, 1939-45, http://allieret.natmus.dk/person.aspx?84047 (accessed on 28 December 2020).

[4] Simonsen’s service number is part of a block of numbers (2000000 to 2099999) allotted for WAAF enlistment in May 1941. The next block of numbers (from 2100000) was allotted in August 1942.

[5] Frihedsmuseets database over søfolk og soldater i allieret tjeneste, 1939-45, http://allieret.natmus.dk/person.aspx?84047 (accessed on 28 December 2020).