Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Major Joyce Hawtrey-Williams, Womens Royal Army Corps, formerly Auxiliary Territorial Service

Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Capt., W.R.A.C.); Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R., with additional service bar (Sub., A.T.S.); together with three cloth badges; original commission document to the rank of Subaltern, dated 1 February 1949; newspaper cutting; and several photographs, nearly extremely fine (4) £250-300

The following information is extracted from a newspaper cutting included with the lot: ‘Major J. Hawtrey-Williams, W.R.A.C. has taken up command of 14 Independent Company, W.R.A.C., at Saighton camp. A Londoner, Major Hawtrey-Williams joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (the 6th Hampshire Battalion) in 1938. During the war she served with A.A. Command and was commissioned in 1942. After a tour of duty in Belgium and Germany she went to Headquarter, Far East Land Forces, on the staff, returning to the U.K. to become Adjutant, first of a regular unit in Yorkshire and later in 303 (Kent) Battalion, W.R.A.C./T.A.’