British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Nurse Gladys Morgan, Voluntary Aid Detachment

1914-15 Star (G. Morgan, V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals (G. Morgan, V.A.D.); British Red Cross Society War Service Medal 1914-18, unnamed, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. Medal, enamelled, reverse inscribed, ‘7066 G. Morgan’; identity disk (2) (Nurse G. Morgan, V.A.D. C.E.); another (Nurse G. Morgan V.A.D. Bapt.); Red Cross Arm Band, stamped ‘Army Medical Service’ and ‘British Red Cross Society’, the latter inscribed in ink, ‘16.11.15’, with buckle; 2 x ‘Red Cross’, ‘40’ and ‘Glamorgan’ shoulder titles; and ‘2 Scarlet Efficiency Stripe’ cloth patch (2) and ‘4 Blue Stripe’ cloth patch, medals nearly extremely fine (lot) £120-160

Miss Gladys Morgan enrolled as a Nurse Member of the Glamorgan/40 Detachment of the Red Cross in September 1914. She served at the Red Cross Hospital, Dock View Road, Barry Dock, September 1914-October 1915. With the V.A.D. she entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 November 1915, then aged 23 years, and served in military hospitals there until September 1920. For her war service she was awarded the Portuguese Military Order of Christ, Chevalier’s badge in November 1919 and was awarded two Scarlet Efficiency Stripes by the War Office. Post-war she was based at Hanwell, April 1921-April 1922. With a number of original photographs and postcards, mostly of nurses; together with copied research.