biography
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Gwynne-Vaughan, Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella
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née Fraser
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pronunciation:
[gwin vawn]
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| lived:
| (1879–1967)
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| biography:
| Botanist and servicewoman. She studied at King's College, London, and became head and later professor of botany at Birkbeck College, London (1909–44). She was an authority on fungi. In World War 1 she was organizer (1917) and later controller of the Women's Army Auxiliary Air Force in France, and commandant of the Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force (1918–19). In World War 2 she was chief controller of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (1939–41). |
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