Anne Field

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ADC Hon
Birth nameAnne Hodgson
Born(1926-04-04)4 April 1926
Died25 June 2011(2011-06-25) (aged 85)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branchAuxiliary Territorial Service
Women's Royal Army Corps
Years of service1947–1982
RankBrigadier
Service number399675
Spouse(s)Anthony Field (1956 – 1961)

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.

Military career

Field began her military career as a

officer training and benefited from having instructors that had seen active service during the war. She was commissioned in December 1948 as a second subaltern (equivalent to second lieutenant).[1]

Her first posting as an officer was as a

military law.[1] She had applied for overseas service upon her commission. The opportunity came for this during the Malayan Emergency (1948 to 1960) and she was posted to Singapore.[2][4] From 1951 to 1953, she served there as officer commanding of the 4th Independent Company, WRAC; a unit of 400 female personnel.[1][4]

She returned to England at the end of her posting to Singapore. In 1953, she attended a six-month course at the WRAC

TA Battalion WRAC.[1]

In 1961, she was promoted to

Colony of Aden had become the State of Aden but there was an insurgency against British rule that became the Aden Emergency.[1] She was responsible for the welfare of soldiers and their families based in the region. She made a point of visiting troops in even the most dangerous places, which won her approval from her male colleagues.[2] She had the additional role of notifying the families of casualties and her experience of the conditions that they had faced gave her letters authenticity.[3]

After a spell in Germany, she was promoted to colonel in December 1971, and appointed as Commandant of the WRAC College, Camberley. In 1975 she was appointed as Deputy Director WRAC. In 1977 she was promoted to Brigadier and appointed as Director WRAC.[2]

Later life

Having served in Aden in the 1960s during the Aden Emergency, she became patron of the Aden Veterans' Association in 2002[1] She died on 25 June 2011, aged 85[1] and is buried in the churchyard of St Kentigern's parish church, Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumbria.[5]

Personal life

On 17 March 1956, she married Captain Anthony Field (born 1927). He was a British Army officer who at the time of their marriage was serving in West Germany with the British Army of the Rhine.[1] They did not have any children and divorced in 1961 after five years of marriage.[2]

Honours and decorations

On 1 June 1977, Field was appointed

dames upon appointment.[4] She was subsequently appointed CBE in the 1996 New Year Honours
.

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1. Retrieved 5 April 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Brigadier Anne Field". The Daily Telegraph. 26 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Obituary: Brigadier Anne Field CB, CBE, army professional". The Scotsman. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d "Brigadier Anne Field". The Times. 29 June 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  5. ^ Field, Anne. "Brigadier". BillionGraves. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  6. ^ "No. 47245". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1977. p. 7649.
  7. ^ "No. 48041". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1979. p. 2.
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