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Captain Bernie Mapstone
02.03.2010 - Telegraph

Captain Bernie Mapstone, who has died aged 95, was the first woman medical officer to serve with a Guards unit, when posted to Libya in 1947. On enlisting in the Royal Army Medical Corps two years earlier, Bernie Noone, as she then was, became the only woman at the Aldershot training depot. After a year examining troops prior to posting abroad, she volunteered for overseas duty herself and was moved first to the Suez Canal and then – by mistake – to the 1st Guards Brigade in Tripolitania ... mehr

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