Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private M. Clarke, Auxiliary Territorial Service
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, all privately engraved ‘W.211146 Pte. M. Clarke.’, nearly extremely fine

Four: Corporal D. E. Fuller, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, nearly extremely fine

1939-45 Star, the reverse privately engraved ‘Sister F. M. Bruce-Taylor’; Women’s Voluntary Service Medal, unnamed as issued, good very fine (10) £60-£80

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

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M. Clarke served with the Auxiliary Territorial Service at Whitchurch, Redhill and Bushey Park from 1943 to 1944. She is later believed to have served with S.H.A.F.E. at the Hotel Trianon in Versailles, and as part of the Army of Occupation at Westphalia. For her services during the Second World War she was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 2 August 1945).

Sold with an original photograph of the recipient in military uniform and a War Office letter of notification regarding the M.I.D., to Pte. M. Clarke, No. W/211146 A.T.S.

Dorothy Edith Fuller was born on 30 September 1916 and enlisted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force on 23 February 1942. Trained as a Nursing Orderly, she was posted to France on 13 November 1944 and later served as part of the British Army of the Rhine. Demobilised on 3 February 1946, her papers list her home at that time as Tottenham in London.

Sold with the original R.A.F. Airwoman Service and Release Book to Cpl. D. E. Fuller, No. 2029096, which contains the following reference:
‘This nursing orderly has worked with me for over a year, for the last 4/12 being in charge of a ten bedded Sick Quarters or small hospital and she has proved herself very efficient at her work using a considerable amount of general nursing and also first aid work. She always got on with her colleagues and subordinates, and can be tactful.’