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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 294

A Scarce Great War Campaign Group of Six to Searcher and Stenographer Miss M.F. Rawle, Attached The Wounded and Missing Department, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Later Corporal, Auxiliary Territorial Service
1914 Star (M.F. Rawle. B.R.C.S.& O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (M.F. Rawle B.R.C.S.& St.J.J.); Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with 'Territorial' scroll suspension (W.14735 M.F. Rawle Cpl., A.T.S.), nearly extremely fine, mounted in a wooden display frame (6)

Miss Mary Forbes Rawle served during the Great War on the Western Front, September 1914-June 1915; as Searcher and Stenographer her job was to search for and record the details of missing personnel (those killed in action, missing, wounded, hospitalised or taken prisoner of war) from the British Expeditionary Force; she re-engaged for service with the A.T.S. during the Second War.

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