Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel M. A. Thompson, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Major, Q.A.R.A.N.C.); Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse dated ‘1954’, mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £280-320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Schweder Collection of Medals for Campaigns in Malaysia.

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E.D. London Gazette 20 July 1954.

Mary Avril Thompson, T.D., M.A., was born on 17 April 1913. Appointed to the Q.A.I.M.N.S. in 1940; Sister, 1942; Captain, Q.A.R.A.N.C., 1949; Major, 1952; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1964; retired 1968.