A MEMORIAL service will be held for Molly Rose, one of the Spitfire Women who delivered planes to Second World War pilots.

Mrs Rose, from Bampton, West Oxfordshire, died aged 95, in October last year.

She delivered 273 Spitfires and as a result she was known as one of the Spitfire Women.

The service will take place at Magdalen College Chapel on Saturday, January 28.

In 1939 she married Bernard Rose, who was a Fellow in Music and organist at Magdalen College from 1957 to 1981.

Mrs Rose’s son Graham Rose, from Appleton, near Abingdon, said: “Molly was heavily involved with the Magdalen College Choir.

“This included attending hundreds of services in the chapel and entertaining many choristers, academical clerks and music students at their homes in Bampton and Appleton.

“Overseas choir tours were also managed by Molly.

“The recently-appointed Informator Choristarum and Fellow in Music, Mark Williams, has put together a splendid combination of music for the service together with his colleague, the Dean of Divinity and Fellow, Rev Dr Jonathan Arnold.”

Sally Dunkley, a music student of the late Bernard Rose from 1967 to 1970, will deliver an address at the service.

Learning to fly in a Tiger Moth in 1937 and gaining her pilots’ licence at the age of 17, Molly Rose was invited to join the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1942.

The service begins at 2pm and everyone is welcome to attend.