Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Pair: Worker Olive Maud Lines, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps/Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

British War and Victory Medals (19326 Wkr. O. M. Lines, Q.M.A.A.C.); Silver War Badge (362869)

Six: Alfred Lines, Merchant Navy

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Alfred Lines); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, good very fine and better (13) £120-160

Mother and son.

Olive Maud Lines was born in Long Lawford, Warwickshire in 1884. She gave birth to her son Alfred at the Union Workhouse, Rugby, in late 1899 - he was baptised on 14 January 1900. She served in the Great War with the Q.M.A.A.C./W.A.A.C. - enlisting on 4 January 1918 and being discharged as medically unfit on 11 May 1918 and awarded the British War and Victory Medals and Silver War Badge. Her young son served in the Merchant Navy. In the Second World War it would appear that Alfred Lines served in the Royal Engineers.

Medals to Olive. M. Lines with W.A.A.C. cap badge and riband bar. Medals to Alfred Lines with R.E. cap badge and two R.E. cloth badges. With copied research.