Medals from the Royal Berkshire Collection

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Pair: Private A. D. Bromley, Army Service Corps
British War and Victory Medals (DM2-171115 Pte. A. D. Bromley. A.S.C.) extremely fine

Jubilee 1977, attributed to Mrs. Marion Bromley, Women’s Royal Voluntary Service, unnamed as issued, mounted on lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint card box of issue, extremely fine (3) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Royal Berkshire Collection.

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Ashley Donald Bromley attested into the Army Service Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front. Post-war he settled in Maidenhead, Berkshire with his wife Marion, where he ran the family Bakery and Seed Merchant business with his brother. During the Second World War, he served in the 2nd Berkshire (Maidenhead) Battalion, Home Guard.

Sold together with his Berkshire Home Guard record card and five school sporting medallions, all cased, three of which are silver.

Marion Bromley was born in Kingswood, Bristol in 1903. After her marriage, she moved to Maidenhead, Berkshire, where she served for many years as the organiser of the Maidenhead Branch of the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service, having joined in 1940. During the Second World War, she took charge of the local Force’s Canteen. She was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, as a result of her long service to the W.R.V.S. She died, aged 89, in January 1993.

Sold together with two WRVS badges, various local press cuttings including her obituary, a contemporary group photograph of the Maidenhead Force’s Canteen and her medal riband bar.