Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Civil M.B.E. group of six awarded to Sister M. A. Redwood, Territorial Army Nursing Service

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf, all unnamed, mounted as worn; Swansea General and Eye Hospital Badge, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘3 Mary A. Redwood’, with brooch bar, good very fine (6) £200-240

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1958. ‘Miss Mary Ann Redwood, Health Visitor, Monmouthshire County Council’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 8 November 1945. ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe’.

Sold with three letters re. the award of the M.B.E.; War Office notification of the mention in despatches; medal and M.I.D. forwarding slips; case and bow riband for the M.B.E.; a statutes booklet for the Order of the British Empire; a photograph of Mary Redwood outside Buckingham Palace having been awarded the M.B.E., and a souvenir Programme to mark the Visit of the Prince of Wales to Ebbw Vale, 4 July 1969. The recipient’s address given on several of the papers is ‘Holmlea, Eureka Place, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire’. Also with an autograph book of Nursing Sister N? Redwood dating from the Great War, which contains verse and sketches; together with eight embroidered cards dating from the same period.