sentences:  In February 1917 she was appointed Controller of Cooks and seven months later brought all 7000 Women's Legion cooks and waitresses into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which had been formed earlier that year.Later she was appointed Controller of Recruiting for the WAAC and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918.In February 1918 she became Chief Controller of the WAAC at the War Office and five months later was promoted to Controller-in-Chief (Major-General), becoming the senior officer of 57,000 women serving at home and overseas.