| 词条 | Hilda Horniblow |
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BiographyShe was born on 24 June 1886 in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, and was educated at Oxford High School and University College, Reading. She became a teacher in Scarborough but left teaching during the First World War.[1] She initially joined the Women's Legion, superintending kitchens at a convalescent camp in Eastbourne and running an officers' mess in Kent. She rose to become Deputy Commandant of the Military Cooking Section.[2] She was then appointed as deputy to Florence Leach, controller of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which was renamed in April 1917 as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC). She was promoted to chief controller and sent to France, arriving in Le Havre on 9 July 1917. She eventually had charge of a detachment of 1,000 women attached to the United States Army's record office in Bourges, before being recalled to England in July 1918 to take up the post of chief controller in England on the death of Mrs Long.[1][3] After the war Horniblow became headmistress of a women's evening institute in London and in 1935 she was appointed staff inspector for women's subjects in technical institutions.[1] She married John Dalton (born 1885/86) in 1941, and retired in 1942. She died at her married home in Menston, West Yorkshire, on 2 January 1950.[1] HonoursIn the 1918 New Year Honours, Horniblow was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).[4] She was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1919 Birthday Honours "for valuable services rendered in connection with the War".[1][5] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{Cite ODNB|id=62131|title=Horniblow [married name Dalton], (Emilie) Hilda}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Horniblow, Hilda}}2. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 13190 |date= 9 January 1918 |page= 173 |city = Edinburgh }} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Bidwell|first1=Shelford|title=The Women s Royal Army Corps|date=1997|publisher=Pen & Sword|isbn=9780850520996|page=28|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Vkd-AwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA28&ots=Wvi56rqES3&dq=%22miss%20horniblow%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=horniblow&f=false|accessdate=1 April 2018}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 30460 |date= 4 January 1918 |pages= 373–379 |supp= y }} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 31377 |date= 30 May 1919 |pages= 6978–6981 |supp= y }} 7 : 1886 births|1950 deaths|Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps officers|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|People educated at Oxford High School, England|Alumni of the University of Reading|English schoolteachers |
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