Wednesday, 6 September 2023

1930s FEMALE BEAUTY (2) - MALVERN TERRITORIAL COMPANY

Following our daring aviatrix, another photo of a VBCW beauty from the archives, sadly as yet to be "colourised", but a rare example of the campaign uniform of the Malvern Territorial Company:

Determination in lipstick - a female officer of the Malvern Territorial Company ("MTC")

The history of Malvern in the VBCW is somewhat complicated, and further research needs to be carried before any conclusions can be drawn as to the role of the MTC in the conflict. For the moment, therefore, let this photograph of one of its officers stand as a suitable memorial.....

(1). Lesser historians and the wilder type of conspiracy theorists attribute this photograph to the Mechanised Transport Corps, aka the Motor Transport Corps, c. 1942, but such WIKI ravings can safely be ignored in Herefordshire.

ADD EDIT : And finally we do have a colourised example ! Here it is:

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