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Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, was an English author. The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, she worked for public organisations including the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from 1939 to 1941, and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941. She was the wife of Conservative politician Christopher Soames.
With her father at the Potsdam Conference, 1945
Junior commander Mary Churchill at the British Victory Parade in Berlin, 21 July 1945
Christopher and Mary Soames in Lenzerheide, February 1947
The Auxiliary Territorial Service was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed on 9 September 1938, initially as a women's voluntary service, and existed until 1 February 1949, when it was merged into the Women's Royal Army Corps.
Two members of an ATS searchlight unit.
ATS recruitment poster, with AA gun in background
ATS women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942.