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Molly Greenwood Allott CB (28 December 1918 – 12 December 2013)Obituary
telegraph.co.uk; accessed 19 February 2018. was director of the

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from 1973 to 1976. Born in Wortley, Leeds,

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, she was educated at Sheffield High School, and joined the

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in 1941. She remained in the WAAF after the war, and continued into the permanent

when it was established in 1949. After postings in Egypt and Singapore, she served on the staff of

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, commanding RAF Germany, from 1960 to 1963, and returned to the United Kingdom for a staff post in

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. She later served at RAF Training Command before being promoted to director of the Women's Royal Air Force in 1973, in succession to Philippa Marshall. She was concurrently made an aide-de-camp to the Queen, holding both titles until 1976. After stepping down as director, she chaired the Girls Venture Corps and held positions with the Union Jack Club and the RAF Benevolent Fund. She helped fundraise for the Battle of Britain Museum at the RAF Museum, Hendon. She was the first woman in the RAF Supply Branch to have been promoted to the rank of Air Commodore.

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ALLOTT, Air Cdre Molly Greenwood
in ''Who's Who 2013'' (online edition: Oxford University Press, 2012) {{DEFAULTSORT:Allott, Molly 1918 births 2013 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Royal Air Force air commodores Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers People from Wortley, Leeds People educated at Sheffield High School, South Yorkshire