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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 375

Three: Serving Sister M. E. Young, Order of St. John

Defence Medal 1939-45; The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Serving Sister's breast Badge; silver and enamel, on ladies bow riband; Service Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, in H.T. Lamb & Co. case of issue, the last two with framed documents of issue edge bruising to second, overall very fine (3)

Mary Ellen Young worked for the St. John Ambulance Brigade, apparently at Thorne Colliery as an award document dated to 20 March 1952 notes a number of gifts presented 'from all the Members and Cadets of the Thorne Colliery St. John Ambulance Brigade' the same document puts her in service for a total of 38 years. This would put her at the Colliery at the time of the Colliery during the 1926 Shaft Disaster which claimed the lives of six men. Young was promoted Serving Sister on 26 July 1951; sold together with St. John Ambulance buttons and badges as well as a corresponding riband bar as well as two framed documents, one promoting her to the rank of Serving Sister with the Most Venerable Order of St. John and the other a High Award of Serving Sister of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.

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Sold for
£75

Starting price
£90