A Broughty Ferry woman who drove wartime ambulances during the Blitz has died aged 97.
Helen Anwi Buckingham died peacefully in her sleep at Tigh na Muirn care home in Monifieth.
She was born Helen Anwi Rolfe-Rogers on March 24 1917 in Bedford, England.
Her father, a tea planter, and her grandmother, took her to Sri Lanka where she spent her childhood growing up on various tea plantations.
At age 12 Anwi, as she was known, returned with her grandmother to Bedford where she entered school for the first time, yet graduated at 18.
At the outset of WWII Anwi enlisted in the Civilian Corp as an ambulance driver. She served in London throughout the Blitz. Later in the war she drove supply trucks for the NAFFI in Egypt and Israel.
In the late 1940s she married an American journalist, Rob Roy Buckingham Sr, in London.
Over their 15 years together, they lived in 12 countries, travelling frequently as he was a United Press correspondent, and eventually rose to European continental editor for United Press.
She took photographs, converting their kitchens into darkrooms, and sold them to magazines independently.
He joined the New York Times News Service in 1960 and the couple moved to New York City. They were divorced in 1962 and she never remarried.
Mrs Buckingham returned to the UK, teaching English with International House in London in the late 1960s.
She developed their language laboratory curriculum and helped develop the language laboratories International House established in Paris, France and Rome, Italy.
Mrs Buckingham later completed her Baccalaureate with the Open University in London.
She moved to Edinburgh where she taught at Basil Patterson College through the 70s, and completed her Masters degree through the Open University.
In the mid-1980s she retired to Broughty Ferry where she was a member of the Scottish Dowsing Society, took up drawing, and continued hiking with her dogs into her 80s.