Elsie and Mairi had joined the fledgling Women's Royal Air Force together on their return to England, but after they were demobilised they never saw each other again.
Well, the King an-nounce the formation of the Women's Royal Air Force and Sir John Simon announced spending of another pounds 500m on defence to boost the pounds 730m spent so far that year.
Also at the ceremony will be Margaret Wilson, 89, who was a nurse during the war and helped to tend to injured soldiers, and Nora McLackland, 94, who was with the Women's Royal Air Force.
Betty served in the Women's Royal Air Force during the Second World War and the band's serenade at The Chines, in Weddington, was a surprise organised by her devoted family.
Dame Felicity Peake, 89, the wartime leader of the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force who went on to become the first leader of the newly formed Women's Royal Air Force in peacetime, died Nov.
At 5ft 4ins tall, Doreen weighs a healthy 8st 9lbs, but in her 20s - when she was in the Women's Royal Air Force and then the Territorial Army - she was three and a half stones heavier.
