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  1. Air Chief Commandant Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, Lady Watson-Watt, DBE (21 March 1899 – 18 June 1971), known as Jane Trefusis Forbes, was a businesswoman and the first director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (193943).

  2. Air Chief Commandant Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, Lady Watson-Watt, DBE (born 21 March 1899 – died 18 June 1971), known as Jane Trefusis Forbes, was the first Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) from 1939-43.

  3. 12 de nov. de 2023 · Katherine Jane Trefusis-Forbes, always known as Jane Trefusis-Forbes, was the woman put in charge of the WAAF at its inception in 1938. Trefusis-Forbes had served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a Chief Instructor and had many years of Army Service behind her.

  4. The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established in June 1939 with Miss Jane Trefusis-Forbes (1899-1971) as its first Director. In World War I she had been one of the first group of women to wear khaki; joining the Women's Volunteer Reserve, formed in 1914 to set more men free for front line service.

  5. Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, Lady Watson-Watt, DBE (1899 –1971) became the first director of the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1939.

  6. www.bawdseyradar.org.uk › women-in-radar › jane-trefusisJane Trefusis • Bawdsey Radar

    Jane Trefusis DBE. In 1916, aged just 17, Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes left school and volunteered for the Women’s Volunteer Reserve. She was disappointed to be too young to be sent to France. By 1939, she had become Chief Instructor at the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and by 1939, was responsible for the WAAF.

  7. Francis Trefusis, one of the MPs for Penryn in 1679 and has a monument in Mylor church, dated 1680. Jane Trefusis Forbes, Scottish businesswoman and the first director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (1939–43) John Trefusis of Trefusis was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1626.