WOMAN DIRECTOR
HEAD OF AUXILIARY SERVICE.
THE BRITISH TERRITORIALS.
WAR-TIME ACTIVITY RECALLED
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Daw 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 4.
A woman Professor of Botany has been appointed Director of the Auxiliary Service Army Branch, with ‘ the rank of Chief Controller. She is Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Professor of Botany at the University of London, best known to the general public as chief controller of the Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps with the British armies in France in the Great War, and later as commandant of the Women’s Royal Air Force. ~ The strength of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the formation of which was announced last September, is now 912 officers and 16,547 members. The corps was created to release men from performing certain military duties.— British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 224, 5 July 1939, Page 6
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