Orders, Decorations and Medals

Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with 1 bar, silver (Gladys T. Paget), mounted as worn; Soldiers’ Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association L.S. Medal, with brooch bar, ‘Ten Years’ and slip bar, ‘Five Years’, reverse engraved, ‘Nurse E. Schofield, 1938, “Alexandra”’, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1930, extremely fine (2) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Gladys Theresa Paget was born on 7 September 1885, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel & Brevet Colonel Alwyn de Blaquiere Valentine Paget (1855-1931). During the Great War she served as a nurse in the British Red Cross. She enrolled in the B.R.C.S. in August 1914 and served at the Auxiliary Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, in September 1915; at the Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, December 1915-January 1916; at the Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford, April-June 1916 and at the South African Hospital, Richmond, July 1916-February 1917. For her services in the war she received the B.R.C.S. War Commemorative Medal. For her long voluntary service in the British Red Cross Society, 1914-1935, she was awarded the Voluntary Medical Service Medal and one bar. Miss Paget died on 9 February 1965. With copied research.

Ethel Schofield joined the Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Aimen’s Families Association (S.S.A.F.A.) in May 1925 on a two-year contract as Alexandra Nurse at the Guards Depot, Caterham, Surrey. She then accepted a post in the Prison Nursing Service at Holloway but shortly thereafter she applied to rejoin S.S.A.F.A. and accepted a two-year contract in Malta commencing in March 1928. On 27 November 1946 she was awarded the S.S.A.F.A. Long Service Medal and one bar. She received this at Marlborough House from the hands of H.M. Queen Mary. With copied research and photograph.