A resident of Wellington Terrace Long Term Care Home has finally received a Second World War medal more than 80 years after earning it.
Lucie Anna Joan Fuller, 108, served with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as a radar operator, playing a key role in Britain’s air defence network. After training at RAF Cranwell, she was stationed in Northern Ireland and later near Dover, tracking aircraft movements during the war.
Joan’s service came during the Blitz and was marked by personal loss. Her younger brother was killed in action in 1943, and she later took an early discharge to care for her ill mother.
Joan and her future husband moved from Britain to Canada in 1947, before her 1939–45 War Medal was issued—an oversight only discovered in 2025.
Now believed to be the oldest recipient of the medal, Joan was formally honoured yesterday in Aboyne.
