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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 513

Five: Miss P. L. W. Mason, Specialist Pharmacist, British Red Cross Society

Defence Medal 1939-45; Voluntary Medical Services Medal (Miss Phyllis L. W. Mason); B.R.C.S. Medal for Long Service, for 3 Years, with three '3 Years' Service' clasps, reverse impressed 51071; B.R.C.S. Proficiency Cross, enamelled, for Red Cross First Aid, reverse inscribed, '34840 P. Mason'; another for Red Cross Nursing, reverse inscribed, '1376 P. L. W. Mason', very fine and better (5)

Phyllis Lilian Winifred Mason served as a Specialist Pharmacist with the 68th Sussex Detachment of the British Red Cross, from 9 May 1939. According to records from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, she registered as a Chemist and Druggist on 4 October 1933 whilst living at 'The Gardens', Standen, East Grinstead. She later moved to Shoreham and served at Southlands Hospital in 1940, before returning to East Grinstead where she accumulated over 2000 hours of service at local First Aid Posts. Her last entry in the Pharmaceutical Register occurs in 1981, indicating that she either retired or died during that year.

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