A WOMAN QUALIFIES AS OFFICER OF ARMY.
EXAMINATION TAKEN BY MISUNDERSTANDING. LONDON. March 19. How a woman qualified to becom* an officer of the British Army is revealed by the experience of Mrs Gordon Potts, wife of an Eton College master, who, owing to a misunderstanding of the regulations, left St Hugh’s College, Oxford, three days before the conclusion of the term in order to marry, and was Struck off the books. She desired to graduate, but was told, when she applied for permission, that she could only Yequalifv by taking “military operations and the theory of Undaunted, she complied, and was the first woman to take the examination, which she passed brilliantly.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 1
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