Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major Eileen Askham, Women’s Royal Army Corps and Auxiliary Territorial Service

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (Sub. E. Askham, A.T.S.) light contact marks, good very fine (6) £240-280

Eileen Askham was born in Greenwich, London, on 3 November 1913 and was commissioned Second Subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service on 6 November 1942. She served during the Second World War, and was Mentioned in Despatches ‘in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy’ (London Gazette 29 November 1945). Promoted Junior Commander on 1 February 1947, and Senior Commander (subsequently re-designated Major) on 15 December 1949, she transferred to the Women’s Royal Army Corps on the latter’s inception, and was awarded her Efficiency Medal (Territorial) in 1949 (London Gazette 14 October 1949), and a Second Award Bar ten years later. She retired on 24 March 1962, and died in Yeovil, Somerset, in November 1997.