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Auction: 18002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 183

Defence Medal 1939-45, in its original card forwarding box addressed to ‘Miss I. G. I. Noble, ‘Marisbel’, 49 Seagate Road, Hunstanton, Norfolk’, with related Home Secretary and Norfolk County Council forwarding slips; together with another identical, in its original card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr. J. W. Shearing, 12 Clement Street, Salford 5, Lancs.’, together with Home Secretary forwarding slip, extremely fine (2)

Iris Gwendoline Ida Noble was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire in 1905, where her father, Frederick, was a coach maker; her mother was Sarah Jane Noble. Iris was the Manager of a Cleaners and Dyers shop but to help in the war effort she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.). The Royal Red Cross Society trained the V.A.D. in first aid - and much besides - and its members first came to prominence for looking after returning members of the B.E.F. at the time of Dunkirk. Iris Noble died a spinster in King’s Lynn, Norfolk in 1989.

John W. Shearing was born in Salford, Lincolnshire on 29 December 1905, the son of Henry and Lillie Shearing. In 1927 he married Florence Osborne and they had one daughter also called Florence. During the war he lived at 12 Clement Street, Salford and worked as a ‘Heavy Goods Driver/Mechanic’. To qualify for his Defence Medal he must also have served for three years in a civilian unit such as the Home Guard or National Fire Service.

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