Audrey Sale-Barker

Audrey Florice Durell Douglas-Hamilton, née Drummond Sale - Barker (* 1903, † 21 December 1994 Dorset) was a British ski racer and pilot. She was the daughter of Maurice Drummond - Sale - Barker to the world, her paternal grandmother was the children's author Lucy Sale - Barker (* 1841, † 1892). On August 6, 1947, she married George Douglas - Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk and took on its last name. In later years, Audrey Sale - Barker withdrew from the public and affected primarily charitable. In 1994 she died barely a month after her husband. The couple had no children.

Sports career

Sale - Barker was a founding member of the launched by Arnold Lunn Ladies' Ski Club. Your success put an 1929 when they next to her compatriot Doreen Elliott is one of only two women start was at a meeting organized by the FIS international downhill race in Zakopane, just finished in 14th place, while 48 men left behind. In the same year won Sale - Barker both the downhill and the combined score in the ladies competition of the Arlberg - Kandahar race. This success could repeat 1933 and is also still secure the title in the slalom. With their five wins, it is still one of the most successful participants of this competition. To have on the basis of their performance in four different years achieves the Arlberg - Kandahar race three times a podium and won a combination, you gave it in 1935 as the first woman Kandahar diamond needle. The table below summarizes their race wins together.

They also took part in the Alpine World Ski Championships 1931 in Murren, 1932 in Cortina d' Ampezzo and 1934 in St. Moritz. Although she could the silver medal in the slalom secure in their second inaugural, but memorable were their added five fourth ranks among the three sweeps: 1931 in slalom in 1932 in the downhill and the combination and in 1934 again in the downhill and the combined.

The U.S. skier Alice Kiare Sale Barker described with the following words:

Aviation

In 1929, Sale - Barker acquired a pilot's license and was in consequence the stage name Wendy - related to one of the literary protagonists of the children's stories about Peter Pan. In October and November 1932 she undertook jointly with Joan Page, daughter of the Chief Justice in Burma Sir Arthur Page, in a de Havilland DH60 a flight from London to Cape Town. First the duo in Cairo was delayed because the Sudanese authorities wanted to give them no overflight rights, but ultimately succeeded the trip. The return flight took place early next year instead, but on January 14, 1933 lost the women in low-hanging clouds, the orientation and were dissuaded by strong gusts of wind from the course. The plane crashed about 65 kilometers south of Nairobi from the rain forest on a rocky ridge. Page suffered a broken leg and Sale - Barker retired to slight head injuries. The fast- led bailout caused a furor in the United Kingdom and was closely followed by today's print media. In search of water pushed Sale Barker on a Maasai and presented him with a request for help, a note on them., In the absence of other writing instruments with lipstick "Please come and fetch us We've had had listed on Aircrash and are hurt. ". On January 16, the pilot of a reconnaissance flight sighted the wreck with two injuries, but could not land. Because his message is equipped a rescue team that reached the women soon. Page was flown to a hospital plane and Sale - Barker carried in the car.

Sale - Barker joined in June 1940 at the Air Transport Auxiliary, a group of experienced pilots who took over supply flights for bases of the Royal Air Force in World War II. To her local colleague Amy Johnson, a close friendship developed.

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