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A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Commandant Lucy M. K. Pratt-Barlow, Queen...
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A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Commandant Lucy M. K. Pratt-Barlow, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later Auxiliary Territorial Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military), Member’s 1st type, Lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (D.Ctr. L. M. K. Pratt-Barlow.); War Medal 1939-45 privately named ‘Ch. Cmdt. K. L. M. Pratt-Barlow A.T.S.’, note order of initials, very fine (4) £200-£240 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918. Lucy Marjorie Kathleen Pratt-Barlow (née Fraser) was born on 5 January 1881, the daughter of the British Consulate General of Algiers. She later married Edward Alexander Pratt-Barlow and is recorded in 1908 as living at 7 Lower Grosvenor Place in Belgravia. She served as Deputy Controller in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps from 12 July 1917 to 19 October 1918, and is later recorded in November 1939 as a Chief Commandant in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Advanced War Substantive Senior Commander on 15 September 1941, she survived the Blitz and retired to Banbury, Oxfordshire. M.I.D. unconfirmed.
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A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Commandant Lucy M. K. Pratt-Barlow, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later Auxiliary Territorial Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military), Member’s 1st type, Lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (D.Ctr. L. M. K. Pratt-Barlow.); War Medal 1939-45 privately named ‘Ch. Cmdt. K. L. M. Pratt-Barlow A.T.S.’, note order of initials, very fine (4) £200-£240 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918. Lucy Marjorie Kathleen Pratt-Barlow (née Fraser) was born on 5 January 1881, the daughter of the British Consulate General of Algiers. She later married Edward Alexander Pratt-Barlow and is recorded in 1908 as living at 7 Lower Grosvenor Place in Belgravia. She served as Deputy Controller in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps from 12 July 1917 to 19 October 1918, and is later recorded in November 1939 as a Chief Commandant in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Advanced War Substantive Senior Commander on 15 September 1941, she survived the Blitz and retired to Banbury, Oxfordshire. M.I.D. unconfirmed.
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