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Jane Trefusis Forbes
Air Chief Commandant Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, Lady Watson-Watt, DBE (21 March 1899 – 18 June 1971〔(Dates of birth and death as per ThePeerage.com )〕), known as Jane Trefusis Forbes, was a businesswoman and the first director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (1939–43).
==Career==
Jane Trefusis Forbes had been Chief Instructor, ATS School of Instruction in 1938. In 1936, Forbes, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan and Kitty Trenchard launched the Emergency Service, to train women and organize them to be prepared in case of war. There were probably fewer than 100 women in the organization which was not officially recognized. On 1 July 1939, three months before the beginning of World War II, she was appointed as Director of the WAAF in order ''"to advise the Air Member for Personnel on questions concerning the WAAF"''.〔(Profile ), historylearningsite.co.uk; accessed April 2014.〕
She inherited "The Observatory" in Pitlochry in 1936, upon the death of her uncle, the physicist George Forbes. Early in the war she is said to have allowed the house to be used as a place for senior militarily personnel to have a few days respite – Field Marshal Montgomery is thought to have been among the guests. By 1943 there were 175,000 women in the ranks of the WAAF. In October 1943, she toured Canada to assess the Women's Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). She also toured India to investigate the possibility of employing women in the South East Asia Command. She retired in August 1944.〔("Soon after Katherine Trefusis-Forbes became Commander of the WRAF in 1939 she was contacted by Violet Douglas-Pennant..." ), spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk; accessed 3 April 2014.〕
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