WOMAN CONTROLLER
BRITISH TERRITORIAL AUXILIARY SERVICE.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, July 4.
A. woman professor of botany has been appointed Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service Army Branch, with the rank of Chief Controller. She is Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan, who is Professor of Botany at the University of London, but-, is best known to the general public as Chief Controller of Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps with the British armies in France during the Great War and later as Commandant of the Women’s Royal Air Force. STRENGTH OF CORPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, July 4. The strength of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the formation of which was announced in September, is now 912 officers and 16,547 members. The corps was created to release men fror% performing certain military duties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1939, Page 5
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