SENIOR AIRCRAFTSWOMAN L. MASON (LATER LYNES AND SMITH, FOLLOWING MARRIAGES).

SENIOR AIRCRAFTSWOMAN L. MASON (LATER LYNES AND SMITH, FOLLOWING MARRIAGES). Six: Gulf Medal 1992, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 clasp (officially impressed: SACW L MASON (D8239090) RAF) General Service Medal 1962, 1 clasp, Air Operations Iraq (officially impressed: SAC L LYNES (D8239090) RAF) Nato Service Medal, Former Yugoslavia clasp, unnamed, as issued Golden Jubilee Medal 2002, unnamed, as issued Saudi Arabian Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait, unnamed, as issued Kuwait Liberation Medal, 4th grade, unnamed, as issued. Mounted court style, generally Extremely Fine and virtually as struck, scarce combination of medals and clasps to a female recipient.

The recipient, Lisa Mason prior to marriage, appears to have married twice, hence the different surnames (same service numbers) on her service medals and Statement of Service (see below). Group accompanied by details of what appears to be her second marriage, in March 2000, in West Oxfordshire, to Damien J. Smith.

Group also accompanied by colour photograph of recipient being presented with the Saudi Arabian Medal and award certificate, by an RAF officer, award certificate for Nato Medal named to D8239090 Senior Aircraftswoman L. Lynes, award certificate for the Saudi Arabian Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait, unnamed, and a Statement of Service dated 25 July 2002, confirming all medals and clasps, and issued to the recipient using her final surname, Smith. “Corporal Smith has completed 12 years’ service in the Royal Air Force during which time she has served in Germany and various United Kingdom locations. She has also been on operational tours of duty in Bahrain, Italy and Kuwait. Every operational tour that she has undertaken has culminated in an excellent end of detachment appraisal report. She is an airwoman of high personal standards and is held in esteem by her work colleagues.· Her contribution to operations has been formally recognised by the award of the Gulf Medal with Clasp, the Kuwait Liberation Medal and the Saudi Liberation of Kuwait Medal in 1991, the NATO Medal with Former Yugoslavia Clasp in 1995 and the General Service Medal (Air Operations Iraq) in 1999. Corporal Smith has worked in secondary and primary healthcare locations. Her work ethos is excellent and she is a reliable and dependable tradesperson. She has proved herself to be a highly competent administrator whilst also possessing first-rate clinical skills. She is a highly flexible member of a very busy healthcare practice that caters for primary, occupational and welfare medicine. During her period in secondary care she worked on various wards under the direct supervision of the clinical team performing the full range of duties expected of a highly experienced auxiliary. She received many plaudits for her nursing work where her excellent clinical skills, coupled with a considerable panache for patient/nurse communication, which served to give her patients the best care possible. Corporal Smith has always been unstinting in her efforts. She is well known for her zeal and enthusiasm and this trait has continually been remarked upon in her staff appraisals. She is forthright, yet diplomatic and tactful when dealing with customers and patients alike a skill that has been a great asset to all the medical practices she has worked in. She is a conscientious individual who displays honesty and integrity at all times and she leaves the Royal Air Force having completed a most successful career. Her attributes are such that she would be a great asset to any prospective employer”