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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 489

Four: Major A. A. Locke, Auxiliary Territorial Service

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (Sub. A. A. Locke. A.T.S.), mounted as worn, sold together with an A.T.S. handkerchief and a British legion Women's Section badge numbered '136395', pitting, nearly very fine (4)

Efficiency Medal London Gazette 9 January 1947.

Second Award Bar London Gazette 14 October 1949.

Adele Anne Locke was born at Marylebone on 1 March 1910, the son of Frances and the Reverend Alexander Locke M.A. Commissioned 2nd Subaltern with the Auxiliary Territorial Service on 28 August 1942 she was advanced Subaltern on 1 December 1946. Her medal entitlement is confirmed by her medal card.

Locke remained in the A.T.S. after the war being advanced Junior Commander on 1 February 1949 and Senior Commander on 1 February 1949. At some stage being re-graded Major, she retired from the Reserve of Officers on 11 June 1960. She died at Taunton Deane, Somerset on 4 Jun 1892; sold together with copied research.

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£140