Brigadier Anne Field CB CBE ADC Hon (née Hodgson; 4 April 1926 – 25 June 2011) was a senior British military officer.

[1] She had joined the ATS in September 1947, having been exempt from conscription during World War II because she had been a university student.

[2] In 1963, after two years as an instructor, she was posted as a grade 2 staff officer to HQ Middle East Command in Aden.

[2] She had the additional role of notifying the families of casualties and her experience of the conditions that they had faced gave her letters authenticity.

[2] On 1 June 1977, Field was appointed Honorary Aide-de-Camp (ADC Hon) to Queen Elizabeth II.

[7] This honour was in recognition of her role as head of the WRAC, but up until ten years previously the directors were made dames upon appointment.