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№ 250

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17 January 2024

Hammer Price:
£240

Family Group:

A Great War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Mrs. Jane S. Henry, British Red Cross Society
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1916, the reverse privately engraved ‘J. S. Henry March 1917’, on lady’s bow riband; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service, unnamed as issued, lacking integral top riband bar; Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze, the last two mounted as worn, good very fine

Three: Private R. A. Henry, Royal Air Force, later A.R.P. Post Warden, Harrow
British War and Victory Medals (36690. Pte. 1. R. A. Henry. R.A.F.); Defence Medal, the first two mounted as worn, the last loose; together with the recipient’s riband bar, contact marks, traces of lacquer, very fine and better (6) £160-£200

M.B.E. London Gazette 7 January 1918: Mrs. Jane Selina Henry.
‘For services in connection with the War.’


Mrs. Jane Selina Henry (née Sherwood), was the mother of Robert Alexander Henry.