WOMAN FLYER
PARTICIPATION IN TWO WARS. Hard-boiled Royal Air Force men at an aerodrome in France looked askance the other day when a pilot with the badges of a squadron leader stepped out of an aeroplane and pulled out a powder puff. They need not have worried. The squadron leader was Mrs Grace Brown, of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, mother of a boy of 10. Mrs Brown had just flown from England a consignment of blood for transfusion purposes. Brother pilots call Mrs Brown Gracie. In the last war she was a nurse in the East African campaign and won a medal.
She does not wear her medal ribbon. “It makes me look as though I were a hundred.” she say. “I am only 42.” Mrs Brown, who spent a recent leave with her husband at Woodland Rise, Sevenoaks, Kent, was a commercial pilot before this war.
Fashion Note. —Mrs Brown arrived in France wearing a dark blue serge uniform with neatly-creased trousers, black shoes, and black silk socks. Her black curls showed at the sides of her cap.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1940, Page 2
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