Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major Joyce Hawtrey-Williams, Womens Royal Army Corps, late Auxiliary Territorial Service (6th Hampshire Battalion)

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. J. Hawtrey-Williams. W.R.A.C.); Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Sub. J. Hawtrey-Williams. A.T.S.) with additional long service clasp, mounted as worn; together with three cloth badges, original commission document in the rank of Subaltern, dated 1 February 1949, a news cutting and several photographs, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-360

The following information is extracted from the 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 [Chester]. 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 Headquarters, 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.’