Title	[Portrait of Sheila K. Smith, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Other--British RAF
Item description	Portrait of Sheila K. Smith in British Women's Royal Air Force uniform, circa 1943.
Veteran's name	Smith, Sheila Katharina Rathbone
Veteran's biography	Sheila K. Rathbone Smith (b. 1924) of Oxford, England, served as a barrage balloon operator with the British Women's Royal Air Force during World War II . Sheila Katharina Rathbone Smith was born in England on 31 August 1924 to a British father and a German mother. She grew up in Hampstead and London, England, and attended high school in Oxford. Smith joined the British Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1942 and served as a barrage balloon operator in London and Newcastle for three years. She then worked in transportation, organizing the movement of British troops and prisoners of war in England. She was discharged in 1946 with the rank of leading aircraft woman (LACW) . Smith modeled after the war, most notably for fashion designer Hardy Amies. She married in 1951 and relocated to the United States.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0317 Sheila K. Smith Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0317.6.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900812866

[Portrait of Sheila K. Smith, circa 1943]

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