Captain Bernie Mapstone

Published: 6:08PM GMT 02 March 2010

On enlisting in the Royal Army Medical Corps dual years earlier, Bernie Noone, as she afterwards was, became the usually lady at the Aldershot precision depot.

After a year examining infantry before to posting abroad, she volunteered for abroad avocation herself and was changed initial to the Suez Canal and afterwards by inapplicable designation to the 1st Guards Brigade in Tripolitania.

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The posting sequence had wanting "Miss", and she was insincere to be a man. Her attainment at the Brigade Field Artillery Regiment caused good consternation, as there was no place to live for a woman, and a CO had to give up his buliding to her.

Bernie Noone was relocated to the bottom troops sanatorium at Tripoli to stick on staff of the area healing centre in Azizia Barracks, that was assigned by the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. As the usually womanlike use healing military military military military officer in North Africa, she was allocated a German prisoner-of-war as her driver, and overcame majority difficulties with her strength of impression and pleasing showing until withdrawal the RAMC in 1949.

The eldest daughter of a encampment postman, she was innate Bridget Noone on Feb 10 1914 at Ahascragh, Co Galway, and, after a inapplicable designation in the registry, since the center name of Bernard. From a internal priory propagandize she won a grant to the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she competent in Medicine and Surgery in 1940.

Bridget Noone became proprietor obstetrical military military military military officer and comparison residence medicine at the Central Hospital, Galway, from 1940 to 1941 but was incompetent to take up dilettante surgical precision since she had to await her family after the beforehand genocide of her mother. She changed to an industrial use in Chesterfield, where her duties enclosed in attendance injuries down the spark mines, and afterwards outlayed 3 years as an partner GP at Potters Bar.

Returning to Britain after the fight she outlayed some-more than a year as partner in ubiquitous use at Nuneaton until marrying Captain Jimmy Mapstone, who had been OC of the Royal Engineer section for that she had additionally lonesome as the healing military military military military officer in Libya.

She assimilated Coventry city legislature as partner schools healing officer, with special shortcoming for disabled children, until the bieing born of her daughter in 1954, and afterwards worked piece time for Essex county legislature until her son"s bieing born in 1956.

Moving with her father who had assimilated the Colonial Service to Nakuru, Kenya, she had important success in expelling the critical butterfly infestation of Lake Nakuru by transferring fish from Lake Magadi, that ate the butterfly larvae.

After a short mangle on Anglesey, North Wales, the family changed to South Africa. Her majority visit charge as misadventure surgeon at the Provincial Hospital in Pretoria was to provide gash wounds. On one pell-mell night, she carried out 54 such operations, a little of them on the floor.

She was promoted to supervision district surgeon for Pretoria from 1964 to 1974, that concerned supervising the total range of healing services in the city. She was the initial lady allocated as a district surgeon in South Africa.

Throughout her tied together life, the reserve and gratification of her young kids and father took priority.

In 1974 the family returned to England. She assimilated Surrey Area Health Authority as a clinical healing military military military military officer for propagandize clinics, until compulsorily late in 1989.

Until reaching 90 in 2004, she one after another to support bleeding and harmed ex-service men and women in disputes with the War Pensions Agency, and was additionally an active account raiser for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

Bernie Mapstone, who died on Jan 16, is survived by her husband, daughter and son.