Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant Lucy M. Briant, Auxiliary Territorial Service

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (W/9909 Sjt. L. M. Briant. A.T.S.) good very fine (3) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Lucy May Briant was born in Wandsworth on 21 February 1910, and enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in March 1939. She was awarded her Efficiency Medal per Army Order 27 in March 1948, and a Second Award Bar per Army Order 101 in August 1949. She died in Eastbourne on 5 August 1986. Her twin sister, Marjorie, also served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, an afterwards in the Women’s Royal Army Corps, and was awarded the B.E.M.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.

For the B.E.M. group of four awarded to the recipient’s sister, see Lot 54.