Mary Ellis was born on 2 February 1917 in Leafield, Oxfordshire, England, UK. She was married to Donald Gordon Ellis. She died on 24 July 2018 in Sandown, Isle of Wight, England, UK.
When the ATA was disbanded in 1945, she was seconded to the RAF, where she became one of the first women to fly Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor.
They actually went inside the aeroplane and searched it. Everybody was flabbergasted that a little girl like me could fly these big aeroplanes all by oneself. [At an RAF base, the ground crew refused to believe she was the pilot of the Wellington bomber she had just landed]
