Mary Coulshed

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Dame Mary Frances Coulshed
Nickname(s)Mary Coulshed
Born1904
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Died1998 (aged 93 or 94)
Hendon, London, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom British
Service/branchBritish Army
RankBrigadier
Commands heldWomen's Royal Army Corps
AwardsDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Territorial Decoration

Brigadier Dame Mary Frances Coulshed, DBE, TD (10 November 1904 – 1998) was a British Army officer who served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC).

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to the British Army and the WRAC in the 1953 Coronation Honours.

She died unmarried in 1998.

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