She was the first woman to compete in the Sovereign's Prize and the first to be selected for the Kolapore Match, respectively the most prestigious individual and team competitions in British target rifle shooting.

Born in British India in 1892, Badcock was the daughter of an English civil servant, and spent her early life in Kent and in Cheltenham.

During the Second World War, Badcock served as an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and was made an Additional Member of the Order of the British Empire.

[1] She was the daughter of Francis Badcock, a native of Taunton in Somerset serving in India with the Indian Civil Service, and his second wife, Adele Margaret.

[2] In December 1914, following the outbreak of the First World War, Badcock became a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at Suffolk Hall Hospital in Cheltenham, holding the position until January 1917.

[4] After the war, they ran a poultry farm and home together at Coleford Paddocks in the village of Frimley Green,[2] near Bisley Camp in Surrey, the centre of British target rifle shooting.