- Title:
- Runners Up Medal for Ladies Singles at the Control Commission Germany Badminton Championships, Junior Commander Bevis Anael Shergold (nee Reid), Women’s Royal Army Corps, 1951
- Object name(s):
- sports medal
- Brief description:
- Runners Up Medal for Ladies Singles at the Control Commission Germany Badminton Championships, Junior Commander Bevis Anael Shergold (nee Reid), Women’s Royal Army Corps, 1951. Bevis Anael Shergold (nee Reid) was born in 1919 and was an accomplished track and field athlete by the time World War Two (1939-1945) broke out. She was a national champion in javelin and discus and participated in the 1938 European Athletics Championships in Vienna. Reid joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1940. Her fluency in Italian was put to good use, and she served with the Intelligence Corps, working in Combined Detailed Interrogation Centres across Egypt, Algeria and Italy, translating prisoner of war interrogations. After the War, Reid competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, throwing the discus and javelin. From a collection of medals and badges associated with Bevis Anael Shergold (nee Reid), Women’s Royal Army Corps.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Medals
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Chelsea, Temporary Exhibition: Foe to Friend
- Object name:
- sports medal
- Object number:
- NAM. 2014-08-46-2
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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