rog747. The weasel wording excuse of course is that the word "solo" is not mentioned in the commendation.
This is fatuous. Every day men and women pilots are flying all over Africa,including up to Europe, solo and in crews, some in "open cock-pit" biplanes and some even in microlights.
The ONLY justification (and that would have been a slim one) would be if TC-T were truly solo.
She wasn't by a long chalk and this fact was not made apparent at the time.