Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 1st type, Ladies breast badge, with original Warrant named to Miss Ethel Theodora Clegg, 3 June 1918, good very fine £60-80

Ethel Clegg joined the Women’s Legion, Military Cooking section, in August 1916. She worked at Folkestone Rest Camps until transferred to Headquarters Chatham Garrison, February 1918; promoted Deputy Controller, Eastern Command, February 1918, and transferred to Q.M.A.A.C. Headquarters Staff, Eastern Command, London, 1919, and was demobilised in November of that year.