Six: Lieutenant-Colonel Mary A. Thompson, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Major M. A. Thompson. Q.A.R.A.N.C.); Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1954, with integral top Territorial riband bar, this lacking pin and stitched to riband; contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008.

Mary Avril Thompson was born on 17 April 1913 and was granted a commission as Sister in the Territorial Army Nursing Service on 30 May 1941. Appointed to the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service as a Sister in 1942; she was promoted Captain, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps in 1949; Major in 1952; and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1964. She was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1954 (London Gazette 20 July 1954), and retired in 1968.