At the age of 18, she was employed as an au pair to a military family in India.
She returned to the UK in 1931 and met her future husband, Norman Caterham. They married at Salisbury Cathedral in 1933.
Mr Caterham became a lieutenant colonel in the army, and the couple were stationed in Hong Kong and Gibraltar.
In Hong Kong, Ms Caterham set up a nursery.
She has lived through the sinking of the Titanic, World War One, the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression and World War Two.
She has spent the last 50 years living in Surrey and continued driving until she was 97.
One of her sisters, Gladys, lived to be 104.
She has three granddaughters and five great grandchildren.
