13 Facts About Mairi Chisholm

Mairi Chisholm's family was independently wealthy and owned a plantation in Trinidad.

Mairi Chisholm spent hours in the family stables stripping down the bikes and repairing them.

Mairi Chisholm was just 18 years old when, while roaring round the Hampshire and Dorset lanes, she met thirty-year-old Elsie Knocker, a divorcee and mother of a young son.

Mairi Chisholm rode her motorbike all the way from Dorset to the capital.

Mairi Chisholm traced me to the Women's Emergency Corps and.

Mairi Chisholm was decorated with the Queen Elisabeth Medal of Belgium and the British campaign medals, including the 1914 Star.

In 1916, Mairi Chisholm became engaged to a Royal Naval Air pilot named Jack Petrie, who died a year later during flying practice.

Mairi Chisholm recovered enough to return to the front, before being forced to abandon her post just months before the end of the war.

Mairi Chisholm returned to Britain, where both she and Knocker saw out the rest of the war as members of the newly formed Women's Royal Air Force.

Mairi Chisholm had been poisoned, contracted septicaemia, and had a weak heart.

Mairi Chisholm did continue to live her life at a fast pace.

Partly on doctors' advice, Mairi Chisholm returned to Nairn, where, it was hoped, she would lead a quieter life.

Mairi Chisholm died on 22 August 1981 of lung cancer, aged 85, in Perth Hospital.