In recognition of her significant achievements, at its meeting of November 2024, Costessey Town council agreed to provide a memorial bench for this Costessey resident.

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Alice Baker (28 July 1898 – 2 March 2006) was a British World War I service veteran. She was one of the last known female British World War I veterans in the UK.^[1] Her non-combat service was as a Leading Aircraftswoman in the Royal Flying Corps at the age of 18 as a 'doper' waterproofing aircraft wings.^[2]

She was born in 1898 in Costessey, near Norwich in England. After the war, she became a nurse at Saint Andrew's hospital in Thorpe.

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BBC NEWS | England | Norfolk | WWI aircraftswoman dies aged 107