Pair: Acting Forewoman J. G. Balchin, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps

British War and Victory Medals (2944 A-Fwn. J. G. Balchin. Q.M.A.A.C.) good very fine (2) £60-£80

Jessie Grace Balchin was born in 1897 in Islington, London, and served in France as an Acting Forewoman with Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps from 20 September 1917 to 3 March 1919. In 1930 she married Squadron Leader R. G. Gardner, D.S.C., R.A.F. (late R.N.A.S.) who went on to serve in the Second World War (M.I.D.; C.B.E.; promoted to Air Commodore). She died in 1956.

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