Miniature medals : Miss Emmy Gaunt, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps

Bar mounted group of miniature medals for the British War Medal 1914-20 and the Victory Medal. Unnamed as issued.

Miss Emmy Gaunt joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in Leeds, Yorkshire, early in 1917. Travelling to London she was trained at the Connaught Club before embarking for service in Boulogne, France. She was given the number 776 and the rank of worker, which was equivalent to private. The WAAC were employed to relieve enlisted men of non-combatant clerical duties and, as she was an accomplished shorthand typist, Miss Gaunt undertook this work from May 1917 to July 1918 for the Transport Directorate of the British Expeditionary Forces (BEF). She then moved to Tours to work for the Central Records Office of the American Expeditionary Forces until August 1919. She returned to the BEF for another few months until her discharge on 18 December 1919. In December 1922 Miss Gaunt emigrated to Australia aboard TSS Berrima. She died at Harbord, New South Wales, on 27 May 1987, aged 98.