Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major Evelyn E. Ashe, Women’s Royal Army Corps and Auxiliary Territorial Service

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. E. E. Ashe. W.R.A.C.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (Sub. E. E. Ashe. A.T.S.) mounted as worn, together with a silver and silver-gilt A.T.S. lapel badge, this numbered ‘17893’, light contact marks, nearly extremely fine (4) £240-280

E.M. London Gazette 20 March 1947.

Evelyn Ethel Ashe was commissioned Second Subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service on 21 September 1941, and was promoted Subaltern on 20 March 1942. Advanced Major in the Women’s Royal Army Corps on 5 October 1954, she transferred to the Reserved in December of that year, and relinquished her commission on 1 December 1960.