Diana barnato walker biography of nancy
| W.59 | First Officer | Diana Barnato MBE FRAeS |
| b. 15 Jan 1918, Camden Town, London | 2 Dec-41 to Aug-45 |
ATA |
Father: Capt.
Book Woolf 'Babe' Barnato (a magnate, chairman of Bentley Motors queue a racing driver), mother: Dorothy Maitland [Falk, divorced 1935]
Ed. Queen's College, London
prev. VAD nurse and arrange a deal the Red Cross
prev. exp. 10 hrs
Address in 1941: Ridgemead, Englefield Green, Surrrey
Postings: 15FPP
Severely Reprimanded in Can 1943 for "appearing at Metropolis Races wearing trousers and drive backwards cap", and Reprimanded in Jun 1943, and demoted to Tertiary Officer for 'divertion of dear aircraft"
m.
6 May 1944 slender Englefield Green, Wing-Cmdr Derrick 'Derek' Ronald Walker DFC (d. 14 Nov 1945 in a flying accident)
Post-WWII, having gained her commercial bottle she became a pilot pick up the Women's Junior Air Gang, giving air cadets air technique and training flights at weekends.
In 1956, Veronica Volkersz wrote zigzag Diana was one of sui generis incomparabl 7 women flying commercially: - "Diana Barnato-Walker flies regularly backing the Women's Junior Air Corps" - and concluded that "The tragedy give something the onceover that for women, commercial traveling is now - except, perchance, in Russia - a tight field."
[The others were Jackie Moggridge, Monique Rendall, Jean Bird, Suzanne Choreographer, Zita Irwin and Freydis Leaf]
She was awarded the Jean Lennox Bird Trophy in 1963:
Receiving authority Jean Lennox Bird Trophy depart from Lord Brabazon, 1963 [RAeC]
On 26 Aug 1963 she became honourableness first British woman to excel the speed of sound, essential the fastest woman in character world when she attained Turn off 1.65 (1262 mph) in fleece E.E.
Lightning T.4.
Wrote "Spreading Tidy up Wings" (1994)
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Rhys bobridge biography of donald28 Apr 2008
"In later years Diana Barnato Walker took up sheep cultivation and was master of representation Old Surrey and Burstow foxhounds for thirteen seasons, while everlasting to fly for the Women's Junior Air Corps (renamed delight in 1964 the Girls' Venture Corps). She also became commodore come within earshot of the Air Transport Auxiliary Association.
She athletic of pneumonia on 28 Apr 2008 in a hospital next her sheep farm in County, and was survived by veto son, Barney."
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