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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 352

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant

An O.B.E. group of four awarded to M. C. Fraser, British Red Cross Society

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, O.B.E. Ladies shoulder Badge, silver-gilt, with makers initials to reverse, in case of issue by Thomas Fattorini, mounted on bow and tails riband; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Voluntary Medical Service Medal with six additional clasps, four of the Geneva Cross, one a crown, one 'V.A.D.' (Miss Marjorie Constance Fraser), together with British Red Cross Society Medal, 3 clasps, 1940, 1937, 1936 (20047 M. Fraser.), impressed naming; British Red Cross Society Medal, 4 clasps, 1943, 1941, 1937, 1935 (13681 M. Fraser), engraved; British Red Cross Society Long Service Medal, 2 clasps, 3 Years' Service, 3 Years' Service (9139); Royal National Rose Society Medal, unnamed; Royal National Rose Society Medal (Miss M. C. Fraser 1989); Royal National Rose Society Medal (M. C. Fraser 1990); Royal National Rose Society Medal (1993 Miss. M. C. Fraser); contact marks, very fine (Lot)

O.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1979.

Marjorie Constance Fraser was born on 9 February 1913, the daughter of Bernard Norman Fraser and Joan Cochrane. She served during the Second World War and later held the Office of Justice of the Peace. Fraser lived in Little Copse House, Reading, Berkshire;.

Sold together with an archive of original material comprising bestowal document, 'Berkshire', 'County of London' and 'Red Cross' Shoulder Patches, British Red Cross Society buttons, 'Shropshire' and 'Red Cross' cap badges and a Red Cross Rosette badge in box labelled Mssrs Tessiers Ltd and an O.B.E. enamel pot in its original case by Toye, Kenning & Spencer Ltd, Red Cross rosettes, a pass for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot and an RAF breast badge as well as the corresponding miniature awards.

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Sold for
£190

Starting price
£160