Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Lance Sergeant Joyce A. Barnham, Auxiliary Territorial Service

British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (No. W/17447 L/Sgt. Joyce A. Barnham. A.T.S.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (W.17447. Cpl. J. A. Barnham. B.E.M. A.T.S.) first initial officially corrected on last, very fine and better (4) £200-£240

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

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B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1944.

Joyce Alix Barnham was born in Paddington on 13 May 1921. A shop assistant, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service on 28 April 1939 and was awarded the B.E.M. for her work with Anti Aircraft Command. She later received the Efficiency Medal under Army Order No. 27 of 1948, and died in Hastings in 1979.

Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, and a portrait photograph.