Air Transport Auxiliary: Female Pilots

Note: This is a sub-section of Air Transport Auxiliary

Female Pilots extracted from information at the Air Transport Auxiliary Museum and supplemented from other sources including wikitree

Key facts -

• There were 168 (169?) female pilots - 120 UK; 1 Australia; 6 Canada; 1 Chile; 1 Denmark; 1 Eire; 3 Holland; 4 New Zealand; 3 Poland; 1 South Africa; 27 USA.
• There were 17 women who lost their lives while serving (marked CWGC)

Female Pilots

• Daphne Elisabeth Abrams (Hanson-Lester, Robinson) - Pilot Second Officer
• Monique Agazarian - Pilot Third Officer
• Jean Akerman (Crichton) - Pilot
• Susan Mary Aurea Alexander - Pilot Third Officer
• Joan Mary Allen - Pilot First Officer
• Naomi Helen Allen (Heron-Maxwell, Thomas)- Pilot First Officer
• Myrtle Rita Allen (Carter, Willer) - U.S.A.
• Irene Arckless - Pilot Second Officer - CWGC
• Joan Henrietta Arthur - Pilot Third Officer

• Mary Bailey (Westenra) - Pilot Second Officer
• Rita Pauline Baines (Colby, Johnson) - Pilot Third Officer
• Ethel Ruth Ballard (Nicholson, Lambton) - Pilot First Officer
• Eirene Rosemary Banister (Whittow) - Pilot Third Officer
• Diana Barnato-Walker - Pilot First Officer
• Edith Beaumont - Pilot Third Officer
• Betty Bell
• Dorothy Ritson Bell - Pilot Cadet
• Phillipa Mary Bennett (Booth) - Flight Captain
• Faith Margaret Ellen Bennett (Riddick, Newmark) - Pilot First Officer
• Patricia Gladys Beverley (Seeman) - Pilot First Officer
• Jean Lennox Bird - Pilot First Officer
• Betty Ellice Black (Beaumont)
• Patricia Annette Blackwell (Noble, Kendall) - Pilot First Officer
• Rosemary Leslie Bonnett (Bell, Gibbs, Towers) - Pilot Third Officer
• Barbara Petronella Bowyer (Cripps)
• Cassandra Felicity Bradford (Bragg)
• Jennie Broad - Pilot Second Officer
• Joan Irwin Broadsmith - Pilot Cadet
• Grace Brown (Holmes) - Pilot First Officer (Class C)
• Daphne Alice Burnside (Gaurdon) - Pilot Third Officer
• Lois Butler (Reid)

• Molly Calver - Pilot Cadet
• Emily Chapin - U.S.A.
• Suzanne Palmer Chapman (Hartman, Lofthouse) - Pilot Third Officer
• Victoria Millicent Cholmondeley
• Helen Riddell Clark - Pilot Cadet
• Edna Violet Clayton - Pilot Third Officer
• Jacqueline Cochran-Odlum (Pittman, Cochran) - Honorary Flight Captain - U.S.A.
• Louise Marie Melina Colby (Morin) - Pilot Second Officer
• Fidelia Josephine Crossley - Pilot Second Officer
• Winifred Mary Crossley (Harrisson, Fair) - Flight Captain
• Joan Cunnington - Pilot Third Officer
• Eleanor Lettice Curtis - Pilot First Officer
• Sylvia Cyphus - Pilot Cadet

• Mercedes D'Anacker (Baker) - Pilot Cadet
• Joy Dorothy Lilian Jane Davies (Pond, Davey) - Pilot Third Officer
• Mavis Agnes Kennard Davis - Pilot Cadet
• Elsie Joy Davison (Muntz) - Pilot Second Officer - Canada - CWGC
• Mary Berta de Bunsen - Pilot First Officer
• Aimee De Neve (Jonklas, Helen, Williams) - Pilot Third Officer
• Ann Courteney Douglas (Edmunds, Welch) - Pilot First Officer
• Pamela Mary Dauvergne Duncan (Gollan)
• Maureen Adela Chase Dunlop (de Popp) - Pilot First Officer
• Margot Duhalde - Chile

• Margaret MacDonald Ebbage (Cunnison) - Flight Captain
• Sylvia Isabel Edwards (Namais, Freshwater) - Pilot Second Officer
• Yvonne Margaret Eveleigh (Lucas) - Pilot Third Officer
• Rosamund King Everard-Steenkamp (Everard) - CWGC

• Margaret Fairweather (Runciman, King-Farlow) - Flight Captain - CWGC
• Lucy Agnes Vera Falkiner (Verney-Cave) - Flight Captain
• Diane Elaine Farnell (Schlesinger, New, Boswell) - Pilot Third Officer
• Marjory June Farquhar (Cole) - Pilot Third Officer
• Virginia Farr - U.S.A.
• Diana Faunthorpe (Home) - Pilot Third Officer
• Joyce Ann Fenwick
• Irene Joy Ferguson - Pilot Second Officer
• Dorothy Joyce Forbes - Pilot Cadet
• Suzanne Ford (Humphreys, de Florez) - U.S.A.
• Mona Renee Vera Ernesta Forward (Friedlander) - Pilot First Officer
• Margaret Olive Frost - Pilot Third Officer
• Rosemary Lilian Fuller-Hall (Pennington-Leigh) - Pilot First Officer
• Dorothy Rita Furey (Bragg, Beatty, Hewitt) - U.S.A.
• Edith Elizabeth Furkert (Power-Collins) - New Zealand

• Sheila Garrett (Wilcoxon, Moszkowski) - Pilot Third Officer - U.S.A.
• Virginia Louise Garst (Bottjer) - U.S.A.
• Margaret Helen Gething (Gepp)
• Mabel Glass - Pilot First Officer
• Daphne Goodman (Newington) - Pilot Cadet
• Una Julia Goodwin - U.S.A.
• Margaret Wyndham Gore
• Joyce Gough (Hartman, Lofthouse) - Pilot Third Officer
• Yvonne Gough (Wheatley, MacDonald) - Pilot Third Officer
• Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower (Fahie)
• Beatrice Glanley Grant (Hayman, d'Aguilar)
• Joan Mary Grinling - Pilot Cadet (Born 23/09/1917 ) Contract terminated
• Muriel Joan Gripton - Pilot Cadet
• Sylvia Mary Guthrie (Cunningham) - Pilot Third Officer

• Janice Margaret Harrington - CWGC
• Helen Marcelle Harrison (Testemale, Barnes, de Waal, Harrison-Briston) - Canada
• Dorothy Frances Helmy (Arkell) - Pilot Cadet
• Sophie Evelyn Hennings (Pennington-Richards) - Pilot Third Officer
• Rhoda Elinor Heppell - Pilot Third Officer
• Bridget Grace Marion Hill - Pilot Third Officer - CWGC
• Katharine Mary Stanley Hirsch (Smith) - Pilot Third Officer
• Jill Elizabeth Hoar (Coles) - Pilot Cadet
• Jocelyne Mary Emma Hotham - Pilot Cadet
• June Constance Howden (Gummer)
• Maria Hrynakowska (Kepinski)
• Evelyn Hudson (Richards)
• Joan Lily Amelia Hughes - Flight Captain
• Mary Josephine Hunter (Corbett-Lane) - Pilot First Officer - New Zealand
• Trevor Hunter (Colway)
• Diana Patricia Margaret Hutchinson Smith (Clover) - Pilot First Officer
• Evelyn Tuttle Hyam (Eisenstaht) - U.S.A.

• Maisie Eveline Montgomery Impey - Pilot Cadet
• Zita Kathleen Irwin - Flight Captain

• Lucie Margaret James - Pilot Cadet
• Joan Molesworth Jenkinson (Dutton) - Pilot First Officer
• Zoe Elise Jenner - Pilot Third Officer
• Amy Johnson (Mollinson) - Pilot First Officer - CWGC

• Eleanor Betty Keith-Jopp (Huggett) - Pilot Third Officer
• Ruth Helen Kerly (Clark) - Pilot Third Officer
• Kathleen Mary Kershaw - Pilot Second Officer - CWGC
• Mary Emily King - Pilot Cadet
• Enid Frances Lilian Knight-Bruce - Pilot Second Officer

• Dora Lang (Tily) - Pilot First Officer - CWGC
• Barbara Lilian Lankshear - Pilot Third Officer
• Kathleen Gloria Large - Canadian
• Opal Pearl Laster-Anderson (Anderson, Averitt) - USA
• Freydis Mary Leaf (Sharland)
• Constance Ruth Leathart - Flight Captain
• Thelma Olga Leith (Wall) - Pilot Cadet - Canadian
• Margaret Elizabeth Lennox (Albertsen, Firkal, Drown) - U.S.A.
• Anna Zofia Maria Leska - Poland
• Kathleen Marjorie Lester (Haylock) - Pilot Third Officer
• Eleanor Lind (Meltzer) - Pilot Cadet
• Heather Marion Lott (Jesson) - Pilot Cadet
• Joan Alston Lovell-Pank (McPherson) - Pilot Third Officer - U.S.A.
• Betty Ann Lussier (Sicre) - U.S.A.

• Elizabeth Anderson Macdougal - Pilot Second Officer
• Rosemary Theodora Macleod (Wills) - Pilot Third Officer
• Audrey Evelyn Macmillan (Mackenzie, Brocklehurst) - Pilot First Officer
• Joan Esther Marshall - Pilot Third Officer - CWGC
• Elizabeth Francis May (Henderson) - Flight Captain
• Ursula Mary Metcalfe (Preston) - Pilot First Officer
• Marion Adelaide Micklethwaite - Pilot Second Officer
• Nancy Jane Miller (Livingston, Stratford) - U.S.A.
• Daphne Alfreda Miller (Rumball)
• Violet Beatrice Milstead (Warren) - Canadian
• Ruth Margaret Moore (Cokayne) - Pilot First Officer
• Audrey Joan Morgan (Fifield) - Pilot Third Officer
• Joan Edwina Francis Mullineaux (Lee, Smyth) - Pilot Third Officer
• Leslie Cairns Murray - Pilot Third Officer - CWGC

• Joan Emily Nayler (Russell) - Pilot First Officer
• Rita Mary Neve - Pilot Cadet
• Mary Webb Nicholson - Pilot Second Officer - U.S.A. - CWGC

• Ruth Obermer - U.S.A.
• Marion Alice Orr - (Powell) - Canadian

• Zita Paddon - Pilot Second Officer
• Joan Hilda Pardoe (Blaicher) - Pilot Cadet
• Patricia Mary Barbara Parker - Pilot Third Officer
• Joan Alys Helen Mary Parsons - Pilot Second Officer
• Gabrielle Ruth Millicent Patterson (Burr) - Pilot First Officer
• Stella Joyce Peterson (Edwards) - Pilot Third Officer
• Winnie Rawson Pierce (Coffee, Beasley, Olmi) - U.S.A.
• Jadwiga Pilsudska (Jaraczewska) - Poland
• Honor Isabel Pitman (Salmon) - Pilot First Officer - CWGC
• Jane Graham Plant (Spencer) - U.S.A.
• Bernice Potter (Forsstrom, Ross) - U.S.A.
• Cecile Eva Rosales Power (Moger) - Pilot Second Officer
• Mary Elizabeth Anne Powys - Pilot Third Officer
• Patricia Mary Provis - Pilot Third Officer

• Hazel Jane Raines - U.S.A.
• Diana Patricia Ramsay - Pilot First Officer - Australia
• Olive Joan Ramsay (Boucher) - Australia
• Margaret Joan Ratcliff (Clare, Boone, McElroy) - Pilot Third Officer
• Sheila Reddicliffe (Lightbody) - Pilot Cadet
• Rosemary Theresa Rees (Du Cros)
• Delphine Rose Reynolds - Pilot Cadet
• Aline Rhonie (Hofheimer, Bamberger, Brooks) - U.S.A.
• Helen Richey - U.S.A.
• Molly Daphne Rose (Marshall) - Pilot First Officer
• Marigold Rowland (Rowland, Saville) - Pilot Second Officer
• Frances Mary Rudge (Horsburgh) - Canada
• Ruth Mary Hornsby Russell - Pilot Third Officer
• Margaret Elspeth Russell
• Marion Cecilia Rye - Pilot Cadet

• Audrey Florice Durell Drummond Sale-Barker (Douglas-Hamilton) - Pilot First Officer
• Roberta Boyd Sandoz (Leveaux) - U.S.A.
• Betty Eileen Sayer - Pilot Cadet - CWGC
• Hilda Edmiston Scarth
• Louise Emma Mathilde Schuurman (Landers, Welters) - U.S.A.
• Ethel Elizabeth Sharpe - Pilot Third Officer
• Maureen Elizabeth Shiel - Pilot Third Officer
• Eleanor Isabella Slade - Flight Captain - CWGC
• Delores Theresa Sorour (Moggridge) - South Africa
• Phyllis Marjorie Spiller - Pilot First Officer
• Grace Stevenson - U.S.A.
• Dorothy Margaret Stewart - Pilot Cadet
• Winifred Stokes - Pilot Third Officer
• Vera Elsie Strodl (Dowling) - Pilot First Officer - Denmark
• Hilda Mary Stroud - Pilot Cadet

• Margaret Elizabeth Thackeray - Pilot Cadet
• Alice Barbara Thomas (McMurray) - Pilot Third Officer
• Dora Joyce Tildesley - Pilot Cadet
• Sheila Marion Tointon (Dobson) - Pilot Cadet
• Frances Patricia Tollemarche (Lloyd-Worth) - Pilot Second Officer
• Eveline Townsend - Pilot Cadet (Born 12/10/1910 ) Resigned
• Olivera Rowena Traherne - Pilot Cadet (Born 03/09/1910 )
• Pamela May Braddyll Tulk-Hart (Johnsen) - Pilot Third Officer

• Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten - Holland
• Veronica May Volkersz (Innes) - Flight Captain

• Eleanor Dorothy Wadsworth (Fish) - Pilot Third Officer
• Anne Walker (Duncan) - Pilot First Officer
• Taniya Whittall - Pilot Second Officer - CWGC
• Betty Olive Whittington (May, Armstrong, Gray)
• Marion Katherine Ogilvie Wilberforce (Ogilvie-Forbes)
• Jeanette Ann Wilkes (McCombie) - Pilot Cadet
• Mary Wilkins (Ellis)
• Katie Doreen Williams (Illsley) - Pilot First Officer
• Benedetta Willis (Day)
• Sheila Willson - Pilot Cadet
• Irene Mary Ellis Wilson (Ellis-Jones) - Pilot Second Officer
• Jane Winstone - New Zealand - CWGC
• Joan Durham Witherby (Wilkinson, Hale) - Pilot Second Officer
• Muriel Elyse Witt (Haselden) - Pilot Cadet
• Stefania Cecylia Wojtulanis - Poland
• Ann Watson Wood (Wood-Kelly) - USA
• Helen Wynne-Eyton (Blandy-Jenkins, Silver, Christie-Miller) - Pilot First Officer

• Mary Estelle Zerbel (Hooper, Ford) - U.S.A.

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