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council until October, 1945, although her duties as a medical officer with the R.A.F.
prevented her from taking an active part in council affairs from I942 onwards.
In 1957, Dr. Pigott returned to the local government scene, and topped the poll in
the election to fill two vacancies in Embrook Ward, the other seat being won by the
then Mayor, Councillor Mrs. La Bouchardière.
Dr. Pigott was married in 1927—the year she obtained her medical qualification--
and in the following year she went abroad, where she spent six years in Egypt, and
Palestine. For half of this time she was on the staff of the hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem and her work there was recognised by her being made an Officer of the
Order of St. John.
Two years after her return to this country, Dr. Pigott came to live in Crescent Road,
Wokingham, and later moved to her present home, which had been in the family since
1917.
In 1938 she was asked by the then Mayor to give first-aid lectures to A.R.P.
personnel, and in September the following year she took medical charge of all
evacuees to the town. In 1940 Dr. Pigott went into general practice, assisting Dr. R.
Rose, and continued to do so until joining the R.A.F. Medical Service, from which
she retired in 1946 with the rank of Squadron Leader, having previously been
mentioned in dispatches.
Locally, Dr. Pigott has become well known for her work for the Wokingham and
Bracknell. Society for Mentally Handicapped Children—of which she is chairman—
and also for her interest in the Oakfields Hostel for old people in Barkham Road,
Wokingham, where she is chairman of the House Committee. In addition she is a
member of All Saints' Church Parochial Church Council.
For the past nine years she has been honorary medical administrator at St. Luke's
Hospital, Chelsea. She is also a member of the Chelsea and Fulham Group Hospital
Management Committee. In an interview with this news-paper on Wednesday, Dr.
Pigott said her duties in London during the coming year would be so arranged as to
make it possible for her to attend civic and other functions in Wokingham.
Dr. and Wing Commander Pigott have two children—a son, who is at present in
general practice in Crowthorne, and a daughter married to Air/Cdre. H.I. Cozens, who
commanded the first Spitfire squadron during the war.

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Sat 25 Feb
CIVIL DEFENCE LECTURES
So many people arrived at, the Civil Defence headquarters in Denmark Street,
Wokingham, on Wednesday for the first-aid lectures organised by the St. John
Ambulance Brigade that there was insufficient room and the lectures were transferred
to the British Legion Hall, Wokingham. Even in this hall it was a case of “standing
room only” to hear the first of six lectures given by Dr. I. L. F. Maine, The lecture
was followed by a film and demonstration of the new “Minute-man” resuscitator
recently bought by the local division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.

HOUSE NAMES
Children attending the Palmer Junior School have now been divided into four
“houses” by the recently appointed head master; Mr. S.W. Meachen. And what better
names to give those houses than those of four former students who have become
Wokingham’s leading citizens and worn the Mayoral chain. These were the late Ald.
F.J. Barrett, Mr. David Goddard and two present aldermen of the town, Mr. F. Moles
and Mr. W.C. Fullbrook. At a meeting of parents at which he announced this “house”

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