Six: Acting Junior Commander E. Paterson, Auxiliary Territorial Service

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, extremely fine (6) £60-£80

Eleanor Paterson, who was born in January 1912, was demobilised in the rank of Acting Junior Commander at Guildford in February 1946.

Sold together with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s Women Officers’ Release Book; Release Certificate; and letters acknowledging service, one of the latter, from the War Office, dated 13 April 1946, with her rank as Subaltern; together with Army Council campaign medal forwarding slip, the above described awards being ticked in pencil on the reverse.