She was the last of three children born to Catharine Beatrice Beauchamp Thompson and her husband Cranston Waddell.
[2] She left the FANY and married Peter Washington who she had met while she was recovering from losing her leg and he was also wounded.
[1] At the start of the Second World War she was turned down for active duty because of her missing leg, but the FANY asked her to take a mobile canteen to France.
She was there when the country was conquered by the German army and she was able to leave at St Malo after pushing the canteen off a cliff.
She was then involved in FANY administrative duties in Edinburgh supporting the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
[4] She was sent to America to help fund raise and this work was recognised by the head of the Polish forces, General Władysław Anders.