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[[Brigadier]] '''Eileen Joan Nolan''', [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (19 June 1920 - 29 December 2005) was a former Director of the [[Women's Royal Army Corps]] (WRAC).▼
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▲[[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier]] '''Eileen Joan Nolan'''
==Early years==
Eileen Joan Nolan was born at [[Bournville]], near [[Birmingham]]. Her father was a [[World War I]] veteran, later employed by [[Cadbury]]'s as a technical adviser. She attended [[King's Norton|King's Norton Grammar School]] on a scholarship. In 1942, she joined the [[Auxiliary Territorial Service]] (ATS) and was posted to [[Halifax, Yorkshire]]. For much of the war she remained in the ATS's training branch. In early 1945 she joined the Officer Cadet Training Unit and earned her commission; she elected to remain in the military, becoming a career officer in the Army, and rising to the rank of [[Brigadier]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1511304/Brigadier-Eileen-Nolan.html |title=Obituary: Brigadier Eileen Nolan |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=24 February 2006}}</ref>
==Positions held==
* Junior commander (Captain at "B" Company 12 Battalion, Prince's Gate, Kensington; 1946)
* Staff Captain Q (quartering branch), War Office, responsible for moving freight to and from the Middle East <!-- when? -->
* Major, WRAC (at [[Tripoli, Libya]]; 1957)
* Home posting, WRAC (1963; [[Stanmore]])
* Officer training wing, WRAC (at [[Camberley]]) <!-- when? -->
* Lieutenant-Colonel, WRAC (1967; posted to [[Singapore]], where she commanded the WRAC; remit also covered [[Malaysia]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Saigon]] and [[Bangkok]])
* WRAC College (1981; [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]]; women cadets took up residence in 1984, integral step in integrating women in the Regular Army)
==Retirement==
Nolan retired as director in 1977 and was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]].
==Death==
Eileen Nolan died on 29 December 2005, aged 85 at [[Crowthorne]], [[Berkshire]], although her death was not announced until February 2006. She never married.
==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web |url=http://www.awfdn.org/downloads/MemorialPam2007.pdf |title=Biodata |page=9 |work=Army Women’s Foundation |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810153151/http://www.awfdn.org/downloads/MemorialPam2007.pdf |archivedate=10 August 2014}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp91759 |title=Eileen Joan Nolan (1920-2005), Brigadier and Director of Women's Royal Army Corps |work=[[National Portrait Gallery, London]]}}
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[[Category:People from Birmingham, West Midlands]]
[[Category:Women's Royal Army Corps officers]]
[[Category:Auxiliary Territorial Service officers]]
[[Category:British people of Irish descent]]
[[Category:British Army brigadiers]]
[[Category:Military personnel from the West Midlands (county)]]
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