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Lady Pile wife of Gen. Sir Frederick Pile, Bt. K.C.B. D.S.O. M.C. G.O.C.-in-C. Anti-Aircraft Command.
She was Miss Hester Phillimore, only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs George Phillimore of Shedfield, Hants. Her husband was formerly Assistant Director of Mechanisation, the War Office.
Lady Pile has worked at the Y.M.C.A. Canteen since the beginning of the War.
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Hester Phillimore was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.
She was the daughter of George Grenville Phillimore and May Melba Franklyn.
She was born on the 7th of October 1900. Droxford, Hampshire, England.
She married Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Bt., son of Sir Thomas Devereux Pile, 1st Bt. and Caroline Maude Nicholson, on the 11th of June 1932. At London City, London, England.
She died on the 8th of December 1949 at the age of 49, Chelsea, London, England.
Her husband, Sir Frederick Alfred "2nd Baronet Pile, of Kenilworth House"
was the son of Sir Thomas Devereux Pile, 1st Bt. and Caroline Maude Nicholson.
He was born on the 14th of September 1884. He was married three times, firstly to Vera Millicent Lloyd, daughter of Brig.-Gen. Frederick Charles Lloyd, on the 9th of January 1915. At Willesden, Middlesex, England. He and Vera Millicent Lloyd were divorced in 1929.
He married, secondly, Hester Mary Melba Phillimore, daughter of George Grenville Phillimore and May Melba Franklyn, on the 11th of June 1932 At London City, London, England.
He married, thirdly, Molly Eveline Louise Mary Smyth, daughter of Ralph Smyth, on 22 January 1951. At Chelsea, London, England. He died on the 14th of November 1976 at the age of 92, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England.[6]