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Anita as a small child.

 

The schoolgirl Anita.

 

Anita in bomb-ridden London in 1940, wearing her Hardy Amies-designed Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC) uniform.

 

German troops surrendering to the French Army in 1945 with a Red Cross ambulance alongside.

 

Anita with her MTC ambulance.

 

Anita with friends during the war.

 

Anita with donkey in Syria, now Lebanon, c.1943.

 

Anita with her co-driver, Geneviève, in front of the ambulance. They are both wearing their recently awarded Croix de Guerre, summer 1945.

 

Anita and Shane and Lionel Leslie, studio shot from the 1940s.

 

Anita’s commanding officer Jeanne de l’Espée and fellow officer.

 

Colonel Peter Wilson, Commander of Transjordan Frontier Force and later on Churchill’s staff in Berlin and London.

 

Colonel Paul Rodzianko CMG, Anita’s first husband. They were married in 1937, divorced in 1948.

 

Anita and Colonel Peter Wilson at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.

 

Clare Sheridan and Anita in 1940, before Anita sailed to Pretoria with the MTC.

 

Commander Bill King arranging a picnic, probably in Lebanon, where he first met Anita in 1943.

 

Anita with her children, Tarka and Leonie.

 

Anita and Bill on their wedding day at Castle Leslie, with pageboys, 1 January 1949.

 

Bill, Leonie, Tarka and Anita at their home, Oranmore Castle, Co. Galway.

 

A glamorous pre-war Anita.

 

Anita with art-gallery owner Roy Miles in London in the early 1970s.