Elizabeth Killick

Naval engineer, FIET, FREng, who led the Admiralty underwater weapons department that transformed defence systems of the time.

Engineering Achievements

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Her Life

1. 1924 Born in Brixton, London
2. 1942 Age: 18 Joined Women's Auxiliary Air Force
3. 1951 Age: 27 Graduated from St Andrew's University in 1951
4. 1951 Age: 27 Joined the Admiralty Signals and Radar Establishment, near Portsmouth.
5. 1966 Age: 42 Promoted to the Civil Service grade of Senior Principal Scientific Officer
6. 1967 Age: 43 Made one of only a few public presentations of her work, a paper on Radar Techniques at a meeting of the Portsmouth and District Physical Society on 8 March
7. 1969 Age: 45 Transferred to the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment
8. 1976 Age: 52 Promoted to Deputy Chief Scientific Officer and Head of the Underwater Weapons Department at AUWE.
9. 2019 Age: 95 Died in Stoughton