Compressed fibre identity disc: Dorothy Eveleyn Stewart , British Army Transport Service

Brown compressed fibre circular identity disc impressed 'DRAY/CE/ W 20608'.

Worn by W20608 Dorothy Evelyn Dray. During the Second World War she served with the British Army Transport Service (ATS). In May-June 1940 British and French servicemen were evacuated from Dunkirk in the face of the German advance. Many returning British and French soldiers were transported inland from Dover by train, arriving at the Addison Road Station in London so that urgent hospital cases could be unloaded and the men could have something to eat, their first food since the evacuation. Members ATS, including Dorothy, would welcome these soldiers by handing out pies, buns and tea. After the war Dorothy Dray married an Australian archaeologist, James (Jim) R B Stewart, later Professor of Archaeology at Sydney University and moved to Sydney. He had been a prisoner of war of the Germans.