Pamela Betty McGeorge BEM was a Women's Royal Naval Service motorcycle dispatch rider during World War II.
[2] McGeorge initially joined the Women's Land Army aged 20, in 1939, having been at physical training college.
[3] On 30 September 1941,[4] when a WREN third officer, she received the British Empire Medal, for bravery in carrying urgent despatches on foot in an air raid.
She delivered a despatch to a command post at the naval shipyards in Devonport, Plymouth on 22 April 1940, after being thrown from her motorcycle by a German bomb during the air raid, then volunteering for more despatch duty.
[13] A portrait of McGeorge by British painter Anthony Devas is in the collection of The Hepworth Wakefield.