played a significant role in the Battle of Britain as the founding Air Commander of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, which supplied the radar-room operatives. They lived together in London in the winter, and at "The Observatory": Trefusis Forbes' summer home in Pitlochry, Perthshire, during the warmer months. They remained together until her death in 1971. Watson-Watt died in 1973, aged 81, in Inverness. They are buried together in the churchyard of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity at Pitlochry. See also History of radar Notes References Sources Lem, Elizabeth, The Ditton Park Archive Sir Robert Watson-Watt bio The Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum at RRH Neatishead, Norfolk The Watson-Watt Society of Brechin, Angus, Scotland External links Deflating British Radar Myths of World War II A comparison of contemporary British and German radar inventions and their use Radar Development In England Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt's biography The Robert Watson-Watt Society 1892 births 1973 deaths Alumni of the University of Dundee British electrical engineers British electronics engineers Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at Brechin High School People from Brechin Presidents of the Royal Meteorological Society Radar pioneers 20th-century Scottish engineers 20th-century Scottish inventors Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal recipients Academics of the University of Dundee Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees Fellows of the American Physical Society