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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 342

Five: Matron M. B. Walker, French Red Cross, who saw service as a nurse in both wars

British War and Victory Medals (M. B. Walker.); Defence Medal 1939-45; France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, with star; Medal of the Societe Francaise de Secours aux Blesses Militaires, minor contact wear, very fine (5)

Mina Brita Walker was born at Grove Park, Lewisham on 3 November 1882, the daughter of Edward and Mina Walker of Lewisham. Listed as a Medical Practitioner on the 1911 census she entered the war in France in September 1915. Between the wars she continued to work as a nurse, being noted travelling to Trinidad on 30 May 1922. During the Second World War Walker worked as nurse of the Russell Stoneham Maternity Hospital, Crayford, Kent. She died at 67 The Glade, Croydon in 4 March 1955; sold together with copied research including M.I.C., census data and information on the Russell Stoneham Maternity Hospital., as well as a number of British Red Cross Society Buttons and corresponding riband bars including the S.F.S.B.M. long service bars for 1, 2 and 3 years service respectively.

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£110