MEDAL, MILITARY

Description: VOLUNTARY SERVICE MEDAL "VOLUNTARY SERVICE 1939 CANADA 1945" SHOWS TROOP OF UNIFORMED MEN & WOMEN MARCHING, OBVERSE. CANADIAN COAT OF ARMS, REVERSE. RED, GREEN, BLUE RIBBON. MEDAL HAS BEEN PAIRED WITH 1939-1945 WAR MEDAL. WITH BAR & NEEDLE FASTENER ATTACHED TO RIBBONS. ATTACHED TO P19890035002-GA.

History: DONOR RAISED IN BARONS, (MCINTYRE) JOINED CWAC IN JUNE 1943, SERVING UNTIL MAY 1946. TRAINED AT VERMILION STATION, CURRY BARRACKS CALGARY. MARRIED T.J.M. RATTRAY, 1947. STATIONED AT WETASKIWIN UNTIL '62. RETIRED VICTORIA, RETURNED TO LETHBRIDGE 1972. ALSO LIVED IN CRESTON & PENTICTON (B.C.). MEDAL AWARDED FOR 18 MOS. VOLUNTEER SERVICE OR ANY VOLUNTEER SERVICE OUTSIDE CANADA. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MILITARY OBJECTS. ACCORDING TO HER OBITUARY IN THE OCTOBER 3, 1996 ISSUE OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD, THE ORIGINAL RECIPIENT AND DONOR OF THIS MEDAL, DOROTHY RATTRAY, PASSED AWAY ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1996 IN CLARESHOLM. SHE WAS BORN IN BARONS ON NOVEMBER 24, 1913, THE DAUGHTER OF HECTOR DONALD AND MARY ELIZABETH MCINTYRE. SHE SERVED IN THE CANADIAN WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS DURING WORLD WAR II, AND MARRIED THOMAS JAMES MARTIN RATTRAY ON JUNE 3, 1947. FOR HARDCOPIES OF BOTH DOROTHY AND THOMAS RATTRAY'S OBITUARIES AND THOMAS' ATTESTATION PAPERS, SEE PERMANENT FILE.