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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 449

Six: Miss S. R. Patman, Women's Royal Voluntary Service

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Miss S. R. Patman); Korea 1950-53 (Miss S. R. Patman); U.N. Korea 1950-54, good very fine (6)

Shelagh Rosalie Patman was born on Jamaica on 6 November 1922, the daughter of an Army Officer and landed in the United Kingdom from Mauritius in March 1928. She joined the Women's Royal Voluntary Service in 1939 and sailed to the Far East - including Malaya (Medal & clasp) - in January 1949, before seeing further service in Korea and Japan (Queen's Medal, U.N. Medal) from 26 October 1952. Returned home in July 1954, Patman saw two spells in East Africa and worked at the East Africa Leave Centre in Kenya. She returned home from overseas in May 1958 and died at Barnstaple in September 1992; sold together with copied research and a photograph of her putting a record on to play with Lance-Corporal T. W. Murphy whilst in Kenya.

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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£160