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Women at War: WW2. Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)
Monica Jean Ladner was born on 7th April 1923, Penzance, Cornwall. She was the daughter of Arthur Tregoning Ladner and Mabel Wills.
She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) Rank Aircraft Woman 1st Class. Service No. 2068080. Unit 7 Air Gunners School. Military Base Stormy Down, Glamorganshire.
Monica died in RAF Hospital St. Athan of meningitis having been taken seriously ill at RAF Stormy Down on 23 June and she was laid to rest at Penzance Cemetery aged 19. She was entitled to be awarded the British WW2 medals and is commemorated on the Madron War Memorial.
Commemorated in perpetuity by Commonwealth War Graves Commission. #WW2 #WAAF -
Continuing Women's History Month:
Continuing the series of women who served in the WAAF WW2:
Hilda Mugglestone was born in 1918, Leighton, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Joseph Mugglestone and Margaret Emma Hewitt formerly of Allenby Crescent Rossington, Doncaster. In 1921 aged 2 she lived with her family at 10 Thomas Square, Stainforth, Yorkshire.
Hilda joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). Rank Aircraftwoman 2nd Class. Service No. 461931. Unit: 17 (P) Advanced Flying Unit. Command: Flying Training Command. She died on 9th November 1943, aged 25. She is buried at St. Michael’s Churchyard, Rossington, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
Prior to Hilda joining the WAAF she was a Sunday School Teacher at Mytholmroyd. #WW2 #WAAF -
Continuing the series of women who served in the WAAF WW2:
Marjorie Sylvia Titley daughter of John Itley and Annie Vallance, she was born in 1925, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
She joined the WAAF, Rank: Leading Aircraftwoman, Service No. 2136002, Unit: 958 Balloon Squadron, Military Base Swansea, Glamorganshire. She died on 12th December 1943 aged 18 while on active service. She was buried at Bramley Burial Ground. #WW2 #yorkshire #WAAF -
Women's History Month. Continuing the series of women who served in the WAAF:
Ida Roydhouse was born in 1925, Driffield, Yorkshire.
She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. Service No. 2137585. Rank: Aircraftwoman 2nd Class. Military Base, Lindholme. Command: Bomber Command.
She died on 2nd January 1945 in Beverley Base hospital of acute Nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) aged 19. She in buried Sunk Island Holy Trinity Churchyard, East Yorkshire. #WAAF #WW2 -
Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force (WAAAF) personnel test the .50-inch Browning guns aboard a Consolidated B-24 Liberator in this War Pictorial News film from April 1945.
@I_W_M #WWII #WAAF #Australia #aircraft #machineguns
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Lovely to see this at Somerset & Dorset railway. Today I'm thinking of the WAAF women in my book who died in the line of duty.
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Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent. #MBE #legiondhonneur #botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned. She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair. Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions. @histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women
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Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent.
#MBE #legiondhonneur
#botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned.
She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair.
Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions.
@histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women -
Ann McMullan Director of Electrical Association For Women #EAW. #WWII was #WAAF Code & Cypher Officer @ Fighter Command HQ then in relief work for displaced persons in #Germany, refugees in #HongKong & charity in #SouthAfrica d. #OTD 9 Mar 2006 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_McMullan
#WomenInEngineering #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
