Dame Evelyn Louisa Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar, DBE, DL (17 December 1910 – 26 February 1984)[1] was a British naval officer who served as Commandant of the Women's Royal Naval Service from 1958 to 1960.
Hoyer-Millar (from a Scottish family, related to the Barons Inchyra), the daughter of Robert Christian Hoyer-Millar (or Hoyer Millar) and Muriel Rosa Lillian (née Foster) Hoyer-Millar, served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) 1939–41,[2] then joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) in 1942.
She was commissioned as a second officer (equivalent to lieutenant) in 1943,[3] and later was in charge of the first party of WRNS to land in Normandy.
[7] She retired to Scotland and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Angus in 1971.
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