Catherine Brightwell - ex-WAAF & ex-WRAF
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Catherine Brightwell - ex-WAAF & ex-WRAF
Danny42C - this may be of interest to you:
Catherine Brightwell aged 94yrs late of South Shields passed away in hospital on 9th August 2016. Catherine served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War and the Women’s Royal Air Force after the war was over. She was known to be an Air Traffic Controller during the war.
Catherine’s funeral will take place on Friday 19th August at 2pm at St Cuthberts Church, Albion Road, North Shields followed by committal at Tynemouth Crematorium.
Memories can be shared at her dedicated memorial page Memorial to Catherine Brightwell.
Standard Bearers are welcome to attend the funeral service
Veterans Funerals UK are pleased to be working with Carol Finn Funeral Directors of Sunderland
Catherine Brightwell aged 94yrs late of South Shields passed away in hospital on 9th August 2016. Catherine served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War and the Women’s Royal Air Force after the war was over. She was known to be an Air Traffic Controller during the war.
Catherine’s funeral will take place on Friday 19th August at 2pm at St Cuthberts Church, Albion Road, North Shields followed by committal at Tynemouth Crematorium.
Memories can be shared at her dedicated memorial page Memorial to Catherine Brightwell.
Standard Bearers are welcome to attend the funeral service
Veterans Funerals UK are pleased to be working with Carol Finn Funeral Directors of Sunderland
A life well lived. Hope the Funeral Directors know it should be a Union Flag on the coffin, not a RAF Ensign.
I actually had a Yacht Club member who was a retired "flight officer". She too had been in ATC, and her service included the Berlin Airlift
I actually had a Yacht Club member who was a retired "flight officer". She too had been in ATC, and her service included the Berlin Airlift
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I bid farewell to a fellow ATCO, even though I never knew her, or even heard her name.
RIP, lady.
(PS ... a shame, she and Danny42C could have swapped stories about ATC in the Dark Ages)
RIP, lady.
(PS ... a shame, she and Danny42C could have swapped stories about ATC in the Dark Ages)
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A quick Google shows that Catherine served as a plotter at the Group Fighter Command Headquarters and Regional War Room in Kenton Bar, Newcastle, during WW2 (Going into battle to save war bunker - Chronicle Live), and was part of a group aiming to refurbish the bunker and open it to the public.
RIP, Catherine - and our gratitude for your most useful service to us pilots!
RIP, Catherine - and our gratitude for your most useful service to us pilots!
