Three: Miss Ruby I. Johnson, Kent Voluntary Aid Detachment

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with ‘V.A.D.’ top suspension bar (Miss Ruby I. Johnson) good very fine (3) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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Ruby I. Johnson enrolled as a Nursing Member in the Kent No. 74 (Speldhurst) Voluntary Aid Detachment on 14 December 1928. She gained proficiency badges in first aid, home nursing, anti-gas, administration and organisation, and infant and child welfare, before being called up for service with the Royal Navy on 7 September 1939. Sent to the Royal Naval Hospital at Chatham, she served two years as a full-time V.A.D. on home service before being posted to Colombo in the spring of 1942. Returned home in 1945, she resigned from the Red Cross on 14 November 1948.