{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Commandant | name = Marjorie Fletcher | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1932|09|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2008|10|11|1932|09|21|df=yes}} | death_place = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = Women's Royal Naval Service | service_years = 1953–1988 | rank = Commandant | service_number = <!-- Do not use data from primary sources such as service records --> | spouse = | children = | relations = | other_work = }} Commandant '''Marjorie Fletcher''' CBE (21 September 1932 – 11 October 2008) served as Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) between 1986 and 1988.
==Career== Marjorie Fletcher was born on 21 September 1932. In her youth, she attended Avondale High School and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls. After leaving school she became a solicitor's clerk, and joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) in 1953 as a rating with the post of telegraphist. She was commissioned as an officer and over the following two decades she was promoted from third officer to chief officer. Her postings including two tours in Malta, including on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet.<ref name="obit">{{cite news|title=Commandant Marjorie Fletcher: Director Women’s Royal Naval Service|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/commandant-marjorie-fletcher-director-womens-royal-naval-service-zld6xtvv5dr|access-date=17 April 2018|work=The Times|date=23 October 2008}}</ref>
Fletcher attended a NATO staff course in 1979, and became director of the naval staff college. She was then posted for three years to Nato headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Afterwards Fletcher became the first WRNS officer to become director of the naval staff duties division in the Ministry of Defence. She was named director of the WRNS in 1986, and retired upon her departure from that post in 1988. Fletcher was subsequently named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Early in retirement she wrote a book on the history of the WRNS,<ref name="obit"/> ''The WRNS: A History of the Women's Royal Naval Service,''<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pierce Beatty|first1=David|title=Book Reviews|journal=Northern Mariner|date=1991|volume=1|page=41|url=https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol01/tnm_1_2_31-73.pdf}}</ref> published in 1989. Fletcher died on 11 October 2008.<ref name="obit"/>
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