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Rosemary Rees was born on 23 September, 1901 in Brompton, London, England, is a British aviator (1901–1994). Discover Rosemary Rees's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Occupation pilot
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 23 September 1901
Birthday 23 September
Birthplace Brompton, London, England
Date of death 1994
Died Place Little Bocombe
Nationality London, England

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Who Is Rosemary Rees's Husband?

Her husband is Philip Du Cros

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Rosemary Rees Net Worth

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1900

Her older brother Richard Rees (1900–1970) was a British diplomat, writer and painter.

Rees learned to dance through a ballet school in Chelsea.

She then began dancing and performing in revue around the world including Ceylon, China and America.

1901

Rosemary Rees MBE (23 September 1901 – 8 March 1994) was a British aviator who worked for the Air Transport Auxiliary.

Born Rosemary Theresa Rees to Sir John Rees and Mary Catherine Rees (née Dormer) on 23 September 1901 in Brompton, London.

1933

In the UK she took up flying and went solo after just seven hours instruction in 1933.

Rees bought her own aeroplane.

She visited European air-rallies with her Miles Hawk aircraft.

The logbooks dated from June 25, 1933 to June 23, 1947, and were sold together with a leather flying helmet, leather gloves, two photograph albums, photographs of Rees as a dancer and related ephemera and books on flying.

1938

She had over 600 hours before she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and already had her instructors licence which she had achieved in 1938.

1940

Rees joined the ATA on New Years Day 1940, one of the ATA's first eight female pilots alongside Joan Hughes, Margaret Cunnison, Mona Friedlander, Gabrielle Patterson, Marion Wilberforce, Margaret Fairweather, and Winifred Crossley Fair, under the command of Pauline Gower.

1941

She was second in command to Margot Gore at Hamble from the 29th September 1941 when the site became an all-women ATA ferry pool.

In September 1941 she took on her role as deputy to Margot Gore at the all woman ferry pool at Hamble-on-Solent.

1945

She left the ATA in November 1945.

By the end of the war she was one of only 11 women who had flown the 4-engine bombers and had flown 91 different aircraft types.

1946

In 1946 she started her own charter company called Sky Taxi.

Rees was one of the few ATA pilots that received a MBE.

1950

On 3 November 1950 she married Sir Philip Harvey Du Cros (1898–1975) becoming Rosemary, Lady du Cros.

She moved to live with him in Parkham, Devon, where she became involved in politics, eventually becoming chairman of the Bideford area Conservative Association.

1994

Rees died at Little Bocombe, Parkham, on 8 March 1994, aged ninety-two.

A bus company in Hatfield named its eight buses after the "first eight" of the Tiger Moth pilots in the ATA, including Rees.

2008

Fourteen years after her death in 2008, the fifteen surviving women members of the ATA (and 100 surviving male pilots) were given a special award by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

2020

In December 2020, six pilot’s logbooks belonging to Rosemary Rees, were sold at auction for £7400, well above the expected estimate.