Three: Major P. McDonell, Auxiliary Territorial Service

Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, with Bar (J. Comd. P. McDonell, A.T.S.), mounted as worn, contact marks, very fine and better (3) £100-120

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

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McDonell was originally commissioned in the A.T.S. in October 1940, became a Temporary Section Commander in January 1943 and a Major in October 1953. Among other appointments she was acting as second-in-command of Bushfield Camp, near Winchester, in February 1947, and as a Recruiting Officer in Oxford as late as 1958.