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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 857

Pair: Miss M. Yates, Voluntary Aid Detachment, later British Red Cross

V.A.D. Medal (Miss Margaret Yates) with one bar; British Red Cross Society Badge for Merit, the first mounted for wear, minor contact marks overall (2)

Note there are three Margaret Yates' named in the V.A.D. service record database, however only one goes by 'Miss'.

Margaret Yates joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment in January 1917, giving her address as Felsted School, Felsted, Essex. She was posted to the Felsted Work Depot, with her duties listed as 'Making garments for Red X'. Yates left service in May 1919 but appears to have maintained her affiliation with the Red Cross; sold together with two Red Cross 204 Cheshire epaulettes.

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Sold for
£50

Starting price
£40