- Title:
- Star of a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, Dame Mary Colvin, Director of the Women’s Royal Army Corps, 1947
- Object name(s):
- Order of the British Empire, star
- Brief description:
- Star of a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, 1947. Awarded to Dame Mary Colvin, Director of the Women’s Royal Army Corps, 1947. Dame Mary Colvin served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) before overseeing the transfer into the Women’s Royal Army Corps (WRAC) in 1949. She became Director of the WRAC in 1957 and served with the Corps until her retirement from the British Army in 1961. Immediately after the end of World War Two (1939-1945), Colvin was sent to Hamburg in Germany, to establish basic welfare services, such as housing, and to set up a local council. After two years of undertaking this work, she was awarded an OBE.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Medals
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Study collection
- Object name:
- Order of the British Empire, star
- Object number:
- NAM. 1994-11-281-15
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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