Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

A Second War B.E.M. awarded to Sergeant Josephine R. Rudder, Auxiliary Territorial Service, for services with Headquarters Combined Operations at Whitehall
British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (W/178061 Sgt. Josephine R. Rudder A.T.S.) mounted on Lady’s bow

Four: Cardew Rudder, Technical Service Corps
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed (138443 C. A. Rudder) the last officially re-impressed, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £200-£260

B.E.M. (Military) London Gazette 1 January 1946: ‘Sergeant Josephine Ruth Rudder, Auxiliary Territorial Service.’

An accompanying news cutting with portrait states ‘Sergeant Josephine Rudder, A.T.S., daughter of Mr and Mrs H. S. Evenden, of “Windy Ridge,” 7, The Woodfields, Sanderstead has been awarded the B.E.M. Military Division Star (sic) for services with Headquarters Combined Operations, Whitehall. Mrs Rudder is the wife of a South African ex-prisoner-of-war and leaves England to rejoin her husband in Durban early February.’ Also sold with portrait photograph of Cardew Rudder in uniform.