Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Miss. T. H. Flett.) nearly extremely fine £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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Thomasina Howie Flett was born in Glasgow on 10 November 1899 and enrolled in the Women’s Royal Naval Service on 13 May 1918 as Clerk (mobile) serving at H.M.S. Rameses. Commissioned as a stone frigate on 1 January 1918, Rameses served as a depot ship for minelaying vessels based at Grangemouth. Discharged services no longer required on 3 March 1919 at the decommissioning of the base, Flett was later awarded the GSM for her services in Palestine with the British Red Cross Society, one of 29 members entitled to the Medal and clasp, Palestine 1945-48. She died at Port Glasgow, Lanarkshire, in 1989.

Sold with copied research and medal roll.