NOTED ENGLISHWOMEN
LEADER OF TERRITORIALS One of the most brilliant ideas of a Government that remembered women’s services with gratitude in the last war is the appointment of Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, G.8.E., as Director and Chief Controller of the A.T.S. Army Branch in Great Britain. Dame Helen was Chief Controller of Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps with the British armies in France during the Great War, and was later appointed Commandant of the W.R.A.F. No one could be better qualified to direct the activities of the new women Territorials. She does so, with a staff of women, from that masculine stronghold, the War Office, where memories of the other time when she controlled women in uniform must crowd in upon her. Dame Helen is that rare combination —a very human intellectual! She has had a most distinguished scientific career, having held the Chair of Botany at London University, with the headship of the Department of Botany at Birkbeck College, since 1909. This position was kept open for her during her war service.
She is a Doctor of Science, London
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 3
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178NOTED ENGLISHWOMEN Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 3
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