[1] She was working as a shorthand typist and recorded in the 1939 Register as living with her widowed mother Ada and her older sister Joyce, a teacher, in Esher, Surrey.

[2] She came to notice as a pilot who delivered aircraft in the civilian Air Transport Auxiliary including Spitfires during the Second World War, with the rank of Third Officer.

Kerly was one of only two women to be commended as pilots during the war, for landing a Mustang that had technical difficulties in a small field on 25 June 1944.

[4] After leaving the ATA on 30 September 1945[5] she married Charles William Storm Clark in 1947.

[4] When she died on 26 May 1992[6] she left her leather flying helmet and goggles to a fellow pilot, Alec Matthews, who donated their joint memorabilia to Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum.