Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with a Woman Home Guard Auxiliary Badge, bakelite, pin-backed, A.T.S. tie-pin and badges (2), and her silver identity bracelet, this engraved, ‘S. Fitz Roy-Kelly, C. of E., W/8175, 43rd Coy. A.T.S.’, extremely fine (7) £100-140

Stella Agnes Piercy Fitz Roy-Kelly, the daughter of Brigadier-General R. M. B. F. Kelly, C.B., D.S.O. and Mary P. Kelly, nee Bedingfeld, was born in Loughyne, South Shoebury, Essex on 1 October 1894. She married Robert Hope Fitz Roy, a Captain in the Royal Artillery, at Chelsea Parish Church on 20 May 1915 and enlisted into the Auxiliary Territorial Service at Portsmouth on 28 February 1939. She was subsequently discharged as a Sergeant, having ceased to fulfil A.T.S. physical requirements, on 4 September 1942.

Sold with a wealth of original papers, including Birth Certificate; Certificate of Baptism; National Registration Card 1915, with envelope addressed to ‘Mrs S. A. P. Fitz-Roy, Copley Dene, Upper Gordon Road, Camberley’; Marriage Certificate; Ministry of Pensions slip re. the award of the Loyal Service Badge; medal card forwarding box, addressed to ‘Mrs. S. A. P. FitzRoy-Kelly, Werk Lane Cottage, Hayling Island, Hants.’; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Defence Medal forwarding slip; War Office certificate of appreciation as a member of the Woman Home Guard Auxiliary; side cap with ‘A.T.S.’ cap badge; photographs of the recipient in uniform; letters - including several dating from the Great War, from Guy Thorne, an officer in the Royal Flying Corps (later Flight Commander); newspaper cuttings and a pair of Swiss shooting medals attributed to Otto Kurt Ettheim. An interesting collection.