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Sold on 7 July 2010

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A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War

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№ 101

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8 July 2010

Hammer Price:
£85

Six: Acting Junior Commander E. Paterson, Auxiliary Territorial Service

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, extremely fine (6) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Eleanor Paterson, who was born in January 1912, was demobilised in the rank of Acting Junior Commander at Guildford in February 1946; sold with a quantity of original documentation, including her Women Officers’ Release Book, Release Certificate, and letters acknowledging service, one of the latter, from the War Office, dated 13 April 1946, with her rank as Subaltern, together with Army Council campaign medal forwarding slip, the above described awards being ticked in pencil on the reverse.