Mary Tyrwhitt

Mary Tyrwhitt
Birth nameMary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt
Nickname(s)Bovvy
Born22 December 1903
Dublin, Ireland[1]
Died18 March 1997(1997-03-18) (aged 93)
Warwickshire, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom Britain
Service / branchBritish Army
RankBrigadier
CommandsAuxiliary Territorial Service
Women's Royal Army Corps

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 Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, a Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.[2][3]

  1. ^ Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655–1915
  2. ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 1985, ed. Charles Kidd, David Williamson, p. 875
  3. ^ "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 or UK public library membership required.)