Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major Diana D. W. Brousson, Women’s Royal Army Corps, late Auxiliary Territorial Service

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Major D. D. W. Brousson. W.R.A.C.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (J.Comd. D. D. W. Brousson. A.T.S.) light contact marks, very fine (4) £140-£180

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

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Diana Dorothy Wharton Brousson was born in Sidcup, Kent, on 20 November 1916. Commissioned 2nd Subaltern in the A.T.S. on 10 August 1941, she was raised Junior Commander on 12 April 1943. Offered a Regular Army Short Service Commission in the W.R.A.C., she became Captain on 1 November 1947 and Major on 20 November 1952. Specialising in Signals, in December 1954 she was sent overseas to Kykko Camp, Cyprus, followed by a series of home postings at Salisbury Plain, Boddington and as Administrative Officer in Command, R.P.O., Brighton. Retiring on 20 November 1971, she died at Hythe on 24 January 1978.