Mrs Willing has hot refreshment from Weidman after starting her channel swim

Mrs Willing has hot refreshment after starting her channel swim

Mrs Hilda Willing. Swam from Shakespeare Beach on the 3rd September 1920 but did not get to France, finishing 6-8 miles from France after 10 hours 35 minutes (reported as 7h 44m in the Across the Straits Booklet). The Boatman feeding her is Jack Weidman.

Hilda was a war widow. Her husband was killed in 1916 at the Battle of Jutland, on Board the H.M.S. Indefatigable. She taught over 2000 ladies to swim.

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