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Elizabeth Mahon was born in Dublin on 21 October 1918. She was one of six children. Her father worked in the Post Office. Mahon attended a Sacred Heart convent in Dublin and went on to get a job with an accountancy firm until the war. During her childhood in Dublin there had been a visit from
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Maurice Hill while in Prestwick. She became ill with influenza and being in a foreign country she had no one to look after her. Hill took care of her for the duration and she later took him flying in her Barracuda and told him he was going to marry her. They were married in
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Spitfires and got 475 hour flying time. Although Mahon predominately worked as a stay at home mother after the war, in 1973 she volunteered with the group that
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Cumbria to Caithness and Hampshire. They had three daughters though one, Elizabeth, died young in 1966. Her husband had a stroke and died in 1996. Mahon died 7 October 2013.
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