Hilary Joan Paddock (Miss)

Second Subaltern Hilary Joan Paddock
04 Jul 1916 - 06 Jan 2000
Profile Picture
Profile picture
Caption & credit
Hilary Piets nee Paddock 1951
Postings
Unit or location Role Posted from until
Canterbury Control Operator 1941 1942
Ardingly Instation Operator 1942 03 May 1945
National ID
EKKC 92/3
Regiment
The Auxiliary Territorial Service
Military number
216799
Commissioned or Enlisted
3 Aug 1941
Career

Beatrice Temple visited her at the following locations;
Canterbury 12 Dec 1941, 1 Jan 1942, 23 Feb 1942, 31 Mar 1942,
East Grinstead 4 Oct 1942.

Address
The Poplars, Keymer Road, Hassocks, Sussex
Other information

Born in Staffordshire to William, a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and his wife Kathleen, she was baptised in Cricklewood, London.

Hiliary married a Dutch Army officer, Lieutenant Berend Piets, on 5 Feb 1944 at Holy Trinity, Brompton. ATS Wireless Operators for Special Duties, Hilary Graham was a bridesmaid and attended in uniform and Beatrice Temple and Wendy Kaines also attended.  A huge amount of Dutch Army and Diplomats attended. The couple had twins in Oct 1944. Berend became a Diplomate after the war as Holland's first minister to Bagdad.

References

Beatrice Temple Diary
Ancestry.co.uk
Mid Sussex Times
Leicester Daily Mail 29 March 1951