About Mary Coulshed
Lived 1904 – 1998 (aged 93–94). Mary Coulshed was a British military personnel.
Brigadier Dame Mary Frances Coulshed, DBE, TD (10 November 1904 – 28 September 1998) was a British Army officer who served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC).
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to the British Army and the WRAC in the 1953 Coronation Honours.
She died unmarried on 28 September 1998, aged 93.
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Who was Mary Coulshed?
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
When was Mary Coulshed born?
Mary Coulshed was born on 10 November 1904 in Sheffield.
When did Mary Coulshed die?
Mary Coulshed died in 1998 in London.
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Mary Coulshed was a military personnel.
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Mary Coulshed was British.
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