Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Military O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Maude Tompkins, Women’s Royal Army Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, with bow ribbon and case of issue; War Medal 1939-45, both unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, second with slight edge bruising, good very fine and better (2) £100-140

Maude Tompkins was born on 27 December 1908. First commissioned on 27 December 1933, she became a Major in December 1944. Posted as Assistant Director, W.R.A.C., Northern Ireland District, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 12 August 1954, she retired from the W.R.A.C. as an Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 November 1957.

Sold with original O.B.E. bestowal document to Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Maude Tompkins, Women’s Royal Army Corps, dated 13 June 1957; this with original envelope, addressed to the recipient at ‘47 Conisboro Avenue, Caversham, Reading, Berkshire’. Also with named forwarding slip and Order of the British Empire Service of Dedication booklet, 19 May 1971.