Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, four bars (The Honble. Mrs. Sybil M. Orpen) nearly extremely fine £80-100

Sybil Margaret Plumer was born in 1887, the second daughter of Field Marshal, 1st Viscount Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., G.B.E. and Annie Constance Goss. She married Major Anthony S. Orpen, East Lancashire Regiment, in 1916 and had two daughters. She joined the British Red Cross Society in 1910 and in 1917 served at York Military Hospital and was Quarter Master of the Kensington Division B.R.C.S. in 1918. For her services during the Great War she was awarded the M.B.E. in 1918 and O.B.E. in 1920 (London Gazette 7.1.1918 & 30.3.1920). After the War she held the position of B.R.C.S. Divisional Secretary, Kensington, 1919-39, Vice-President of the Division, 1940-50, and Hon. Vice-President (London) 1955. She died in 1968.

Supplementary to the above, the B.R.C.S. record The Hon. Mrs Orpen’s awards as follows: British Red Cross War Medal (1921), 1st bar to the Voluntary Medical Service Medal in 1933, the 5th bar in 1953, Jubilee Medal 1935, Coronation 1953 and B.R.C.S. Hon. Life Member and Badge of Honour (1943).

Sold with the book, ‘Plumer of Messines’ by General Sir Charles Harington (spine damaged).