Hilda Horniblow

Emilie Hilda Dalton, CBE (née Horniblow; 1886–1950) was an English army officer and teacher.

Portrait from The Times History of the War, 1918

She served as chief controller of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps.[1]

Biography

Emilie Hilda Horniblow was born on 24 June 1886 in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, the daughter of Frederick Thomas and Sarah Ellen (née McCulloch) Horniblow. She was educated at Oxford High School and University College, Reading. She became a teacher in Scarborough but left teaching during the First World War.[1]

She initially joined the Women's Legion, superintending kitchens at a convalescent camp in Eastbourne and running an officers' mess in Kent. She rose to become Deputy Commandant of the Military Cooking Section.[2]

She was then appointed as deputy to Florence Leach, controller of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which was renamed in April 1917 as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC). She was promoted to chief controller and sent to France, arriving in Le Havre on 9 July 1917. [1]

She eventually had charge of a detachment of 1,000 women attached to the United States Army's record office in Bourges, before being recalled to England in July 1918 to take up the post of chief controller in England on the death of Mrs Long.[1][3]

After the war Horniblow became headmistress of a women's evening institute in London and in 1935 she was appointed staff inspector for women's subjects in technical institutions.[1]

She married John Dalton (born 1885/1886) in 1941 and retired the following year. She died at her home in Menston, West Yorkshire, on 2 January 1950, aged 63.[1]

Honours

In the 1918 New Year Honours, Horniblow was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).[4] She was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1919 Birthday Honours "for valuable services rendered in connection with the War".[1][5]

References
  1. "Horniblow [married name Dalton], (Emilie) Hilda". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62131. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "No. 13190". The Edinburgh Gazette. 9 January 1918. p. 173.
  3. Bidwell, Shelford (1997). The Women s Royal Army Corps. Pen & Sword. p. 28. ISBN 9780850520996. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  4. "No. 30460". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 January 1918. pp. 373–379.
  5. "No. 31377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 May 1919. pp. 6978–6981.
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