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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 94

Three: M. M. K. Harre, Voluntary Aid Detachment

1914-15 Star (M. M. K. Harre, V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals (M. M. K. Harre. V.A.D.) good very fine (3)

Mabel Mary Kendall Harre was born in 1878 at Spalding, Lincolnshire, the daughter of the Reverend Alfred Harre, a Church of England Vicar. Upon enlisting she gave her permanent address as Binstead Rectory, Arundel, Sussex. Entering the war in France on 20 November 1915 as a Nurse at Rouen, remaining there until 21 May 1916 before returning to Britain.

There she joined the Military Hospital Kitchens at Brighton, staying there until January 1917 when she joined the Military Hospital, Tidworth. Returning to France again she served in a Military Hospital from 20 April 1917-8 Janaury 1918 when she was posted to the University War Hospital, Plymouth.

Finally discharged on 1 July 1919 she was later to join the Red Cross. Appearing on the 1939 census she appears as an Assistant Commandant of the Sussex Red Cross, and is on the Assistant Nurses roll for 1947-48. Harre died in 1968.

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£260

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£160