Felicity Hill
Air Commodore | |
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| Commands held | Women's Royal Air Force |
DBE (12 December 1915 – 30 January 2019) was a British Royal Air Force officer. From 1966 to 1969, she served as Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.[1][2] She died in January 2019 at the age of 103.[3]
Military career
In 1939, with the outbreak of
She failed her first officer selection board because she was too young.London Blitz.[2]
Having passed the officer board on her second attempt, Hill attended the WAAF's Officer Training School in
commissioned as an assistant section officer (equivalent in rank to a pilot officer).[5] In 1941, she served at RAF Wyton where her duties included interviewing applicants to the WAAF; among those she interviewed was Sarah Churchill, a daughter of then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[2]
From 1942 to 1943, she served at the WAAF Directorate.South Kesteven District Council.[8]
References
- ^ a b "HILL, Air Cdre Dame Felicity (Barbara)". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Air Commodore (Retd) Dame Felicity Hill DBE celebrates her 100th birthday". raf.mod.uk. Royal Air Force. 15 December 2015. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ Air Commodore Dame Felicity Barbara Hill, DBE death notice
- ^ a b "Private Papers of Air Commodore Dame Felicity Hill OBE". iwm.org.uk. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "No. 35032". The London Gazette. 3 January 1941. p. 70.
- ^ "No. 35503". The London Gazette. 27 March 1942. pp. 1397–98.
- ^ "No. 35855". The London Gazette. 5 January 1943. p. 226.
- ^ "Council officially launches film celebrating 'Inspirational Women' from Grantham and South Kesteven on International Women's Day". Grantham Journal. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 1 April 2023.