A 21st Battalion Warwickshire Home Guard Presentation Medal 1944. Silver with hallmarks for Chester, England, 1938. Named and positively attributed to a woman recipient

The obverse engraved ‘D. Company 21st. Bn. Warwicks H.G.’, the reverse engraved ‘For Services Mrs. J. S. Stanway. 1940-1944’

Reverse of the silver suspension bar retaining its long hinged pin and clasp fittings, for wear by the lady recipient

The recipient was Mrs Joyce Stuart Stanway (nee Fleetwood), was born at Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England on, 8 April 1895. On 1 September 1924, at the Parish Church of Harborne, Staffordshire, England, Joyce Stuart Fleeteood married Christopher William Stanway (a former Military Accountant), who in 1924 was a Civil Servant with the Sudan Civil Service stationed in Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Christopher William Stanway was latterly 'Auditor-General' to the Government of the Sudan, and for which services he was decorated with 3rd Class Order of the Nile (1932) and the Officer (Civil Division) of the Order of the British Empire in 1934). In 1945, Joyce S. Stanway is recorded in the Birmingham Electoral register, as being resident at No. 144 Gillhurst Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Joyce Stewart Stanway of 20 Moorland Court, Edgbaston, widow of Christopher William Stanway is recorded to have died 'peacefully' on, 13 August 1979, at the Birmingham Accident Hospital

A scarce 'Home Front' medal and of considerable local Warwickshire historical & Home Guard interest

Condition: VF

Code: 25592