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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 150

Five: Mrs. M. S. Dams, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem

1914-15 Star (M. Dams, B.R.C.S. & O.S.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (M. S. Dams. B.R.C. & ST.J.J.); Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-1918, very fine, mounted as worn (5)

Muriel Selma Dams volunteered for service in Egypt in October 1915, where she worked as a V.A.D. at the Red Cross hospital in Giza, which expanded to 650 beds by the War's end. In addition to medical care, the V.A.D.s supplied each patient with a gift bag containing post cards, envelopes, a pencil, cigarettes and matches, a face flannel, sweets and soap. Many of these gift bags were sent from Alexandria to hospitals at Mudros and Macedonia. Muriel's husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Charles Dams, commanded the 2/8th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in Egypt; sold with original letter from the British Red Cross, dated 22 June 1920, confirming authority to wear the 1914-15 Star, copied research and MIC.

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£400