THE STORY of a World War 2 dispatch rider from Garnant has been rediscovered as we mark International Women's Day today (March 8). Heritage body Cadw is dedicating the day to celebrate a ‘forgotten’ piece of Welsh history — the story of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Dispatch Rider, Mollie Davies. Born in Garnant the young nineteen-year-old with a passion for motorsports was the first ATS servicewoman to lose her life during the Second World War — yet her story has seldom been told. Telling Mollie’s story is all part of Cadw’s continued effort to unearth and celebrate the stories of women from Wales’s past — a mission which was started with the release of its first feminist history book for children last year, Welsh Women Making History.