A group of medals and badges awarded to Catherine J. Hudson, British Red Cross Society

Voluntary Medical Service Medal, 2 clasps (Catherine J. Hudson); Beech House Auxiliary Military Hospital Medal, for ‘Services Rendered’, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Catharine (sic) Hudson’, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, unnamed, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. Proficiency Cross (2), in Red Cross Nursing, enamelled, reverse inscribed, ‘5953 Catherine Hudson’; another, in Red Cross First Aid, enamelled, reverse inscribed, ‘3904 Catherine Hudson’; B.R.C.S. 3 Years Service Medal, 3 clasps, 3 Years Service, enamelled, reverse impressed, ‘1895’, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. Service Badge, enamelled, reverse impressed, ‘L 5084’, pin-backed; B.R.C.S. County Badge, for London Hampstead, enamelled, pin-backed; together with other B.R.C.S. badges (2) enamelled; ‘Red Cross London’ metal badges (2); cloth badges (4); Civil Nursing Reserve lapel badge, enamelled; and riband bar, medals good very fine and better (18) £120-160

Catherine J. Hudson enrolled as a V.A.D. member on 1 October 1912. During the Great War she performed kitchen work at Beech House Auxiliary Military Hospital in N.W. London, 15 March 1915-3 April 1916. After which she performed nursing duties at the Kensington General Hospital, 3 May-20 December 1916; worked as a Sister’s Orderly at The King George Hospital, 27 July 1917-15 September 1918 and then worked as a Laboratory Assistant at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Millbank, 18 October 1918-10 March 1919. With copied service details provided by the British Red Cross.