Brigadier Helen Guild Meechie CBE (19 January 1938 - 24 August 2000) became the highest ranking woman in the British Army, and Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC)[1] Meechie was born in Dundee, and attended the Morgan Academy, and the University of St Andrews, earning an MA in modern languages.
[3] She served three years in personnel at the Ministry of Defence, before being appointed Commander WRAC Army of the Rhine, near the Berlin Wall.
[4] In 1982 she was appointed Director of the WRAC, the top job for a woman in the British Army, and made an Honorary Aide to the Queen.
Subsequently, she returned to the Royal College of Defence Studies as Deputy Director-General of Personnel Services, retiring from the Army in 1991.
She was made a Freeman of the City of London, and an enthusiastic golfer, set up the WRAC Golf Society.