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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 207

Three: Flight Sergeant E. M. R. Taylor, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, later Lady Corfield

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Air Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (881953 F. Sgt. E. M. R. Taylor. W.A.A.F.), mounted as worn, good very fine (3)

Elizabeth Mary Ruth Corfield (née Taylor) joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in 1939 and married Frederick Corfield at Holy Trinity, Brompton in August 1945. He was a barrister and became the Conservative MP for South Gloucestershire from 1955-74 but it is said that '...being MP was not part of her husband's life plan and they most enjoyed the time they spent at their farm in Gloucestershire with their dogs.'

Lady Corfield lived to the fine age of 102 and died on 13 June 2010.


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£210

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£140