Arm band: Mechanised Transport Corps, British Army - Mrs Olive M. Sherington

Mechanized Transport Corps arm band badge. Embroidered yellow crossed spanners within a cog wheel that has a motto at the base 'PRO PATRIA' and a semi circular banner above 'MECHANISED TRANSPORT CORPS'. All on a royal blue wool field. The insignia has been cut out of the arm band.

Senior Commandant Olive Marie Sherington, British Women's Mechanised Transport Corps. Collection consists of a certificate noting publication in the London Gazette of the Commendation for Bravery for Mrs Sherington and news clippings dealing with her acts of bravery.
Mrs Sherington left Australia on a cruise, a few months after her husband died in 1939. The ship she was on was turned back to London owing to the declaration of war being made. She joined the Mechanised Transport Corps and sailed for France a few days later, where she continued to serve until capitulation. She was one of the first woman to return to France after the D-Day landings at Normandy. Olive Sherington was cited for her courage and fortitude as the last British woman to leave Dunkirk, France in June 1940 when she brought out a party of 13 seriously injured and wounded British soldiers against dreadful odds on the motor vessel "Madura", just days after the fall of France.
Olive Sherington later worked with the Council of Voluntary War Workers in France, Holland and Germany.
She had a house at Collaroy and was president of the Executive Council of Torchbearers for Legacy. She died in Sydney on 16 December, 1971.