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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 355

Three: Nurse. D. E. Griffith-Jones., Voluntary Aid Detachment

Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with Two Additional Bars (Dorothy E. Griffith-Jones.), with box of issue; British Red Cross Society War Service Medal, unofficially engraved (D. E. Griffith-Jones.); Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing Medal (07229 D. E. Griffith-Jones.), good very fine (3)

Dorothy Edith Jones was born at Kensington, London in 1878, the daughter of Griffith and Edith Jones. At the time of her birth her father was building a successful business as a timber merchant and having found success there the family moved, at some time prior before 1891, to a large house in Bury, Goldington. Griffith-Jones lost her eldest brother Lieutenant Philip Astel Templar Jones 8th Hussars during the Second Boer War having been ‘mentioned’ on 8 February 1901. Perhaps as a response to this she joined the British Red Cross on 1905. Griffith-Jones’ youngest brother Captain Harold Robert Jones was killed in a hunting accident at Old Wolverton House on 27 October 1907, having also seen distinguished service in the Boer War, being wounded at Waterval Drift. With the death of her father in 1908 the family changed their surname to Griffith-Jones as a sign of respect.

Joining the V.A.D. as a nurse she worked at the Military Hospital at Farnborough, Hampshire from September 1914 before moving to Gloucestershire and working at the Race Course Hospital, Cheltenham from July 1916. Griffith-Jones was discharged in February 1919 but continued to work with the Red Cross as a volunteer. She died at 1 Rothesay Mansions, Albert Road, Cheltenham on 10 April 1962; sold together with copied research including auction listings, service records and a typed biographical summery as well as two riband bars with long service buttons, a framed miniature of the recipient with a photograph of her in uniform, and her brother and sister-in-law on their wedding day, a British Red Cross Society 10 years long service badge, the reverse engraved '2712 D. Griffith-Jones', a Red Cross detachment badge along with a Red Cross V.A.D. badge and a British Red Cross Society cap badge.

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£160

Starting price
£50