Spitfire Girl (31 page)

Jackie finally gets her full Wings, 25 August, 1953, at Royal Air Force Wellesbourne.

Jackie in the cockpit of a jet, taken during her campaign to become the first woman to break the sound barrier.

‘I was happier than I had been for years.’ A photograph of Jackie taken during the Spitfire trips to Burma,

‘Ferrying Spitfires at Bahrain in Persian Gulf, 120 degrees in shade!’

Last arrival in Burma, having delivered all the Spitfires, 1955.

Jackie working as an airline captain for Channel Airways in the late 1950s. She wasn’t allowed to use the tannoy in case passengers took fright at being flown by a woman.

Jackie and a colleague pose with a de Havilland Dragon Rapide, September 1956. It was in such an aircraft that Jackie had her first flight, aged fifteen.

Jackie as local celebrity: interviewed by Richard Dimbleby for
Down Your Way
, with Jill proudly looking on.

Jackie at Weston-super-Mare, 1967, where she piloted pleasure flights.

The ATA’s forty year reunion, 14 August, 1985. Jackie is crouching at the front.

Jackie and Carolyn Grace prepare for Jackie’s last flight in Spitfire ML407, 29 April, 1994.

B
elow are expanded lists of the people featured in some of the photographs included in the image section. Many thanks to Richard Pode and his team at the Maidenhead Heritage Centre for all their hard work identifying faces.

‘
The women of No. 15 Ferry Pool relax in the sunshine
…’,

(p.4 of image section):
LEFT
TO
RIGHT
Kay Van Doozer (USA), Cecile Power, Anna

Leska (Poland), Unknown, Unknown, Margot Duhalde (Chile).

‘
The full team of No. 15 Ferry Pool
...’, (p.4 of image section):

FRONT
ROW
(
LEFT
TO
RIGHT
): Pam Marsh, Phyllis Farquharson,
Kay Van Doozer, Maureen Dunlop, Grace Stevenson, Emily Chapin, Rosemary Bannister, Pat Parker, Philippa Bennett, Rachel Nickalls, Margot Gore, Alison King, Rosemary Rees, Barbara Murray, Margaret Murray, Doreen Williams, Jean Bird, Anna Leska, Veronica Innes, Mary Wilkins , Betty Grant.
MIDDLE
ROW
(
LEFT
TO
RIGHT
) Dora Lang, Jackie Moggridge, Tanya Whittall, Diana Barnato.
BACK
ROW
(
LEFT
TO
RIGHT
) Bobby Leveaux, Mardi Gething, Margot Duhalde, Anne Walker.
TOP
Vera Strodl.

‘
The ATA’s forty year reunion
...’, (p.12 of image section):

BACK
ROW
Lettice Curtis, Veronica Volkersz, Pete Wither, B. Hale, Mary (Guthie) Cunningham, Doreen (Williams) Ulstey. Joy (Gough) Lofthouse, Zoe Jener, Rosemary (Bannister)
Seccombe, Marigold (Dean Drammond) Saville.
THIRD
ROW
FROM
FRONT
Helen (Kerly) Storm Clark, Alison King, Freddie (Leaf)Sharland, Monique Agazarian, Maggie Fost (hidden).
SECOND
ROW
FROM
FRONT
Anne (Walker) Duncan, Pam Tulk Hart, Maureen (Dunlop) de Popp. Betty (MacDougall) Evans, Molly Rose, Phillippa (Bennett) Booth, Bernie Willis, Mary (Wilkins) Ellis, Cecile (Power) Moger.
FRONT
ROW
Diana Barnato Walker, Margot Gore, Margaret Murray, Jackie Moggridge.

P
hoto on back cover of No. 15 Ferry Pool
:

LEFT
TO
RIGHT
: Betty Hayman Diana Barnato, Maureen Dunlop, Mary Wilkins, Freydis Leaf, Unknown, (Driver) Pamela, Doreen Williams, Grace Stevenson, Emily Chapin, Kay Van Doozer, Margaret Murray, Veronica Volkersz, Margot Gore, Unknown, Rosemary Rees, Philippa Bennett, (in cockpit) Chile and Anne Walker, three ladies sitting on wing unknown, above them Tania Whittall, Mardi Gething, Jackie Moggridge, Vera Strodl.

All of the images used in this edition have been kindly provided by Jackie Moggridge’s family from their personal collection.

I miss the beauty of that world above the earth,
Where winds have curled the tops of clouds,
And tossed them into frilly forms;
The sunlight sweeping o’er them
Warms my very soul.