Nancy Salmon

Air Commandant Dame Nancy Marion Salmon DBE (2 May 1906 – 9 October 1999), also known after 1962 by her married name, Dame Nancy Snagge, was a senior British women's air force officer.

[1] Salmon was born in Hampstead the daughter of a chartered accountant and she was educated at Notting Hill High School.

[1] Salmon transferred from the ATS to the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in 1939 when it was formed and her first posting was a barrage balloon unit.

[1] Following retirement from the WRAF she cared for her mother before becoming head of personnel in the John Lewis partnership.

[1] At her new job she met a company director Geoffrey Snagge, a widower and they married in 1962.