Mary Welsh

This article is about the Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. For the American journalist, see Mary Welsh Hemingway.

Air Chief Commandant Lady Welsh, Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force sitting with Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod, Deputy Air Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Allied Air Forces and Commander-in-Chief, RAF Mediterranean and Middle East, at his desk in MAAF Headquarters at Caserta, Italy, at the start of her tour of the WAAF in Garrod's Command, 1945

Air Chief Commandant Dame Ruth Mary Eldridge Welsh, DBE, ED (née Dalzell; 2 August 1896 – 25 June 1986), known as Mary Welsh, was the third Director of the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), from August 1944 to November 1946. She died, aged 89, in 1986.

Honours and awards

13 June 1946 - Air Chief Commandant Ruth Mary Eldridge, Lady Welsh, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.^[1]
17 July 1973 - Air Chief Comdt. Dame Ruth Mary Welsh, DBE (L/No 29023 ATS later 291 WAAF), retired awarded the Territorial Efficiency Decoration.^[2]

References

↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37598. p. 2779. 13 June 1946. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46029. p. 8288. 17 July 1973. Retrieved 14 October 2008.

External links

Portrait in oils of Air Chief Commandant Mary Welsh

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