Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Third Officer Lorna V. L. Jones, Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service

War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, both officially impressed ‘L. V. Jones. W.R.A.N.S.’, very fine and better and scarce to unit (2) £80-£100

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

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Lorna Valerie Liddell Jones was born in Uppingham, England, on 8 November 1912. Enlisting at Sydney for the Royal Australian Navy on 26 May 1943, she was appointed Third Officer in the W.R.A.N.S. with seniority from 20 April 1944. She was later discharged at H.M.A.S. Kuttabul on 18 June 1946; a very scarce unit, the Navy List of July 1945 stating just 102 officers of the W.R.A.N.S.