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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 60

Three: Wing Officer I. M. Bryan, Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R, 1st type (Act. Sqn. Off. I. M. Bryan. W.A.A.F.), good very fine (3)

Isobel Maud Byran (née Wilkinson) was born in Gloucester in December 1898. She trained as a clerk, specialising in shorthand and book-keeping, and married William H. Bryan at St. Giles in Middlesex on 12 June 1926.

Bryan enlisted into the W.A.A.F. as an Airwoman on 20 March 1939, becoming a Section Leader on 30 September. On 1 January 1941 Bryan was discharged to a commission in the W.A.A.F, serving at the Harrow Depot as an Assistant Section Officer - being duly mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 11 June 1942 refers). She was promoted to Flight Officer in January 1943.

Bryan completed the 102 Advanced Admin Course at R.A.F. Stannington in September 1944, receiving the Air Efficiency Award on 8 May 1947. She transferred to the Secretarial Branch of the W.A.A.F. that December, becoming W.R.A.F. Administrative Officer at R.A.F. Amport in Hampshire. Discharged as a Wing Officer, Bryan died in Cheltenham on 14 October 1958; sold with copied service record and research.


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Estimate
£350 to £400