Auction Catalogue

5 July 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 225

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5 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£120

The Women’s Voluntary Service Medal and associated papers awarded to Mrs Adeline Margaret Herbert, née Joscelyne

Women’s Voluntary Service Medal, 1 clasp, Long Service, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, medal nearly extremely fine (lot) £40-60

Sold with ‘W.V.S.’ armband; ‘W.V.S. Civil Defence’ pin-backed badge; ‘A.R.P. Women’s Voluntary Services’ pin-backed badge; birth certificate; marriage certificate; the recipient’s passports (2); National Registration Identity Card; W.V.S. Uniform Permit; letter re the award of the W.V.S. Medal; Certificate of Admission to the Office of a Reader, granted and signed by the Bishop of Leicester, 1970, with associated newspaper cutting; letters with envelopes (14) from 2nd Lieutenant C. H. Joscelyne, 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, to his mother at Blaby Rectory, Leicestershire, dated 1917; parchment document granting the Freedom of the City of London to Cyril Headley Joscelyne, 1929.