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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 575

A scarce Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire group of three awarded to Forewoman E. E. Eckersley, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps

Medal of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Military), 1st type, unnamed as issued, in its John Pinches, London case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (383 Fwn. E. E. Eckersley, Q.M.A.A.C.), number and rank officially re-impressed on the second, generally good very fine (3)

Medal of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire London Gazette 23 January 1920.

Edith Ellen Eckersley was born in Bedminster, Somerset on 7 July 1871, the son of Edward Eckersley, a Chief Engineer, R.N. She served in France from May 1917 until September 1919 and is believed to have been employed as a driver for part of part of that time - on one occasion she was apparently reprimanded for stopping to pick up wounded.

Edith settled in Southsea after the war, where she worked for the British Red Cross Society (B.R.C.S.) but in later years moved to Ireland to live with a relative. She died in Dublin on 17 August 1967, aged 96.

Sold with the her B.R.C.S. badges for Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing; Anti-Gas Training and Red Cross First Aid, and her B.R.C.S. 'Merit' Medal, gilt and enamel, all inscribed to 'E. E. Eckersley', together with assorted clasps for the period 1941-43 and an A.R.P. badge.




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£700