Anne Field

Brigadier Anne Field ADC Hon (née Hodgson; 4 April 1926 – 25 June 2011) was a senior British military officer. She had joined the ATS in September 1947, having been exempt from conscription during World War II because she had been a university student. Following training, her first posting was as a clerical instructor with the rank of lance corporal. She was selected for officer training and benefited from having instructors that had seen active service during the war. She was commissioned in December 1948 as a second subaltern (equivalent to second lieutenant). On 1 February 1949, the ATS became the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC). Therefore, she became an officer of the WRAC and, for the first time, became subject to military law. From 1951 to 1953, she served there as officer commanding of the 4th Independent Company, WRAC; a unit of 400 female personnel.

Personal life On 17 March 1956, she married Captain Anthony Field (born 1927). He was a British Army officer who at the time of their marriage was serving in West Germany with the British Army of the Rhine. In the 1980 New Year Honours, she was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). This honour was in recognition of her role as head of the WRAC, but up until ten years previously the directors were made dames upon appointment. She was subsequently appointed CBE in the 1996 New Year Honours.