we also had the first ever female SWO at valley in the early/mid 80’s (maam beasley), being a liney at the time we crossed swords on quite a few occasions, a right old dragon she was!

Hmm, I was never quite sure that ours was the first ever female SWO, but I was there in ’88, so Valley was obviously before us!
It’s funny that there was a no pets rule in the Sgt’s Mess, but she kept 2 dogs in her room…..