Mary Tyrwhitt
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Brigadier Dame Mary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt, DBE, TD (22 December 1903 – 18 March 1997) was a British Army officer. She was the last director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and the first director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) when it was established on 1 February 1949.
Her father was Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, a Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.[1][2]
Death
Brigadier Dame Mary Tyrwhitt died in 1997, aged 93, unmarried.
References
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- ↑ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 1985, ed. Charles Kidd, David Williamson, p. 875
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- 1903 births
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- Auxiliary Territorial Service officers
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- British women in World War II
- Women's Royal Army Corps officers
- Daughters of baronets
- British Catholics
- Military personnel from Dublin (city)