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British Empire Medal

RIDOUT, Irene, Regulating PO, W-2563, WRCNS

Issued: 5-Jan-1946, Canada Gazette

"This Rating was Regulating Petty Officer in charge of the first group of Wrens sent to Scotland in 1944, two months before the Unit Officer was appointed. From the date of her arrival, she showed marked ability and zeal, and performed her duties in an outstanding manner. By her excellent example of discipline, splendid bearing and quality of leadership during, and subsequent to, the difficult period of organization of the Wrens in Scotland, she was responsible in a large measure for the maintenance of the high state of morale and discipline of the Wrens in the Greenock Command."