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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She had been ...
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Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965) was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the third child and only daughter of King ...
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Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE (née Fraser; 21 January 1879 – 26 August 1967) was a prominent English botanist and mycologist. During the First World War, she served in the Women's ...
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Éliane Sophie Plewman (6 December 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a British agent of Special Operations Executive (SOE) and member of the French Resistance working in the "MONK circuit" in occupied France ...
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Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, LG, DBE, FRSL (née Spencer-Churchill; 15 September 1922 – 31 May 2014) was a British author. The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and ...
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Constance Winifred Mark, MBE, BEM (née McDonald, previously Goodridge; 21 December 1923 – 3 June 2007) was a Jamaican-born community organiser and activist. She served as a medical secretary in the Au ...
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Christian Helen Fraser-Tytler (née Christian Helen Shairp) (23 August 1897 – 1 July 1995) was a member of the Scottish Landed gentry and a senior officer in Britain's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) ...
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Brigadier Anne Field CB CBE ADC Hon (née Hodgson; 4 April 1926 – 25 June 2011) was a senior British military officer. She served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps from 1977 to 1982.
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Julian Phelps Allan, formerly Eva Dorothy Allan, OBE (1892–1996) was an English sculptor active between 1923 and 1960. In addition to her sculpting, she served in both the First and Second World Wars ...
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Jean Marcia Montagu, Baroness Swaythling, CBE (née Leith-Marshall; 14 August 1908 – 13 December 1993), first married name Miller, second married name Knox, was Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service ...
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Cynthia Mary Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough, DBE (née Sergison; 10 May 1897 – 2 March 1970) was a British peeress and the wife of the first Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland ...
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Brigadier Dame Mary Frances Coulshed, DBE, TD (10 November 1904 – 1998) was a British Army officer who served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC).
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Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, OBE, PC, TD, DL (12 August 1913 – 7 November 1979) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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Valerie Hamilton, Hon. Lady Goulding (12 September 1918 – 28 July 2003) was an Irish campaigner for disabled people and senator who set up the Central Remedial Clinic in 1951, now the largest organisation ...
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Shoshana Gershonowitz (Hebrew: שושנה גרשונוביץ; 1906–1986) was an Israel Defense Forces officer who served as commander of the Women's Corps from 1952 to 1959.
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Maud Lilburn MacLellan OBE (6 October 1903 – 21 May 1977) was a Scottish commanding officer of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). Whilst being obliged to serve with the ATS during the war she taught ...
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Brigadier Dame Mary "Molly" Railton, DBE (28 May 1906 – 12 November 1992) was a senior British Army officer. She served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) from 1954 to 1957, and its Deputy ...
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Judith Maro (born Ida Yehudit Anastasia Grossman; 24 November 1919 – 16 November 2011) was an Israeli-Welsh writer who published her works in English and Welsh. She was born in Dnepropetrovsk, and raised ...