Brigadier Dame Mary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt, DBE, TD (22 December 1903 – 18 March 1997) was a British Army officer. She was the last director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and the first director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) when it was established on 1 February 1949.
Her father was Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, a Royal Navy officer.[1][2]
Death
Brigadier Dame Mary Tyrwhitt died in 1997, aged 93, unmarried.
References
- 1.Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 1985, ed. Charles Kidd, David Williamson, p. 875
- 2."Tyrwhitt, Dame Mary Joan Caroline [known as Bovvy Tyrwhitt] (1903–1997), army officer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65699. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)