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JOURNEY DOWN A BLIND ALLEY by MARY BORDEN

"Barbara Graham was very nearly as important to me as Dorea, but it took me longer to know her, perhaps because I could never hear what she was saying. When she drove me, as she often did, she would keep up a steady flow of mumbling and chuckling, but for all I got out of it she might have been talking to herself. A curiously attractive creature with a careless disregard for her looks and only a spasmodic craving for soap and hot water, a bit of a gypsy, a bit of an explorer, a bit of a genius, no one could improvise in a crisis like Barbara or smear herself as beautifully with axle grease. She and Kit Tatham-Warter, who had turned from horses to motors at the outbreak of hostilities and talked of her mechanized vehicles as if they had all the tricks and habits of quadrupeds, were outstanding as drivers and mechanics. I could never decide which was the better of the two. Barbara drove with apparently careless ease. Kit, or T. W. as we called her, like a man — ^powerful, tireless and taciturn. I close my eyes and see her strong shoulders and steady head beyond the windscreen and know that whatever the state of the roads I needn't worry. I never did. Across trackless deserts, wadies deep in sand, snowbound mountain passes or unbridged torrents, these two drove their rattling, shuddering, heavy and obstreperous vehicles, undefeated and undefeatable. We shall hear more of them as we cross the Sinai and Western deserts. Of Cynthia too, whom I had first met in her Paris cradle in 1919, and Rosaleen Forbes, who joined us just in time to drive me during our nerve-racking flight across France. A couple of young thoroughbreds were Cynthia and Rosaleen — not yet twenty-one when they joined the unit — ^both darlings of the gods of a pleasant godless world, high- strung and not too strong physically, they had serenely and gaily defied their parents, waved good-by to their disgruntled admirers and were come determined to prove that they were tough. "

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Miss Kit Tatham Warter With Her Pony At A Ladies Polo Event. 

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PINEAU - Femmes en guerre 1940-1946

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Name Kitty Meredith Tatham-Warter 

Birth 24 Oct 1909 Pontesbury
Residence Apr 1911 Atcham
Military Service abt 1939 - 1945 Driver, Hadfield-Spiers Ambulance Unit
Residence 1939 Portway House, Kirtlington
Residence 1954 Meads, Shaw Green Lane, Prestbury, Cheltenham
◦possible confusion with her mother Mrs K M Tatham-Warter (and in 1939)

Death 20 Nov 1999 West Oxfordshire
Notes
◦Bred Rhodesian Ridgebacks in the 1930s - one of the first breeders in England. Used the kennel name "Buckland"; one of her Ridgebacks was named "Kala of Buckland".
◦In 1949 Caesar's Sun, who was ridden by the leading rider in the country, Kit Tatham-Warter, stamped that form when winning his next two races at the Cotswold and North Cotswold meetings. [WalesOnline accessed 22 Feb 2012]
◦Beaufort Hunt Show. High Standard of Jumping. ... A feature of this most enjoyable show has been the classes for working hunters, which on Friday had been of very high quality. ... Miss K. Tatham-Warter won the lightweight class with Mrs. Bulkeley's show mare Pampas Cat ... [The Times, 25 Apr 1955]
◦Team Gold Medalist, Senior European Eventing Championship, Copenhagen 1957: Kit Tatham-Warter - Pampas Cat. [British Eventing website accessed 21 Nov 2010]

Person ID I0969 Tatham | Meaburn branch | Descendant - male line

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Britanniques et Américains dans la bataille de Bir Hakeim

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"... Dans son témoignage paru après-guerre, Lady Spears expliqua : «Je vivais à Tobrouk avec la majeure partie de l’unité, mais je me rendais à Bir Hakim tous les deux ou trois jours. T.W. (Kitty Tatham Warter) y était montée début février et y était restée – à l’exception d’une semaine ou deux, quand de temps en temps Rosie la relevait de son poste – jusqu’à ce qu’il fût ordonné à toutes les femmes de partir fin mai..."

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" THE Hadfield-Spears Unit had arrived at Plymouth on the "Etric" from St.-Jean-de-Luz the twenty-seventh of June, 1940. Re-formed and reequipped it embarked at Glasgow on the "Otranto" on March 24th, '41, for a destination unknown. Seven of the original team volunteered to go with me once again overseas. Barbara Graham, Kit Tatham-Warter, Cynthia Toulmin and Rosie Forbes of the M.T.C. and three nurses, Evelyn Fuhlroth, Nancy Wright and Josie Pearce. To these were added four M.T.C. drivers and five nurses, bringing each group up to eight in the new unit. [...]"

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"Kitty Meredith (Kit) Tatham-Warter, died 20 November, 1999, aged 90. "

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Kitty Tatham Warter, Citoyenne britannique, conductrice à l'Ambulance Hadfield-Spears, de la campagne de France (1940), à la Campagne de France (1944-45)

Source : l'Ambulance Hadfield-Spears, de J. Duprey

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