June Osborne, of the Old Manse, Rescobie, by Forfar, has died a few weeks short of her 95th birthday, after a long illness.
Mrs Osborne was the daughter of Wilmot and Enid Carnegy-Arbuthnott of Balnamoon, near Brechin, and spent much of her childhood in the south of England.
In 1939, with war imminent, she joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (the FANYs) and served with them for three years.
She was mostly based in the Midlands and around Oxford, driving trucks, ambulances and, for a time, the general commanding the central Midland area.
With him she visited Coventry the day after it suffered some of the worst bombing of the war.
In April 1941 she married Captain, later Major, Gerald Osborne, who was to win the MC with The Black Watch at the battle of El Alamein, and she left the FANYs the following year to start a family.
In 1947 the couple moved to Balmadies, near Guthrie, where they farmed and brought up their children, and Mrs Osborne did a variety of public work, including training people to protect themselves in the event of a nuclear attack.
In 1982 Major and Mrs Osborne retired to Rescobie and handed Balmadies over to their eldest son James and his wife Georgiana, who is currently Lord-Lieutenant of Angus.
Mrs Osborne, who was widowed in October 1995, leaves three sons, two daughters, 16 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.