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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 314

Three: Subaltern J. Hudson, Auxiliary Territorial Service, late First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, with Territorial bar (Sub. J. Hudson. A.T.S.), mounted as worn, good very fine (3)

Joan Hudson was born on 12 November 1910 and served the first six months of the war as a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, before it was absorbed into the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Sometime in 1941 she was stationed at 7th Headquarters at Goforth Park, Newcastle as a Motor Transport Sergeant with her role being to drive senior offices to their postings. Applying for a commission she was posted to the Windsor O.C.T.U., later posted to Oswestry as a Transport Officer. Remaining in the Auxiliary Territorial Service after the war she was promoted Subaltern and moved to live at Ingleby Greenhow with her close friend Dorothy Mackay O.B.E. (lot: 564). For the rest of her life Hudson would join Mackay on her career as an author, philanthropist and traveller. She died on 12 March 1998; sold together with an A.T.S. cap badge and an issuance slip with the recipient’s name written on it as well as a copied article written upon the life of her best friend Dorothy Mackay which makes reference to the experiences, post wartime and post-war of the recipient.

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Sold for
£200

Starting price
£70