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6 & 7 December 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 904

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7 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£170

A group of four French Orders and Decorations awarded to Mme D. Delacourcelle, French Red Cross and British Red Cross Society

France, Third Republic,
Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, 53mm including wreath suspension x 40mm, silver and enamel, together with the related miniature award; Order of the Academic Palmes, Chevalier’s breast badge, 36mm x 27mm, silver and enamel, significant purple enamel; Free French Cross 1940-45, silvered; Great Britain, British Red Cross Society Proficiency Cross, gilt and enamel (12020 D. W. Delacourcelle), with ‘Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid’ top riband bar; together with an Alliance Française Medallion, bronze, the reverse inscribed ‘Mme. D. Delacourcelle Newcastle-on-Tyne 1950’, very fine and better (5) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J Carr Collection of Nurses’ Medals.

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Provenance: Morton and Eden, June 2007.

For other medals to the Delacourcelle Family, see Lots 1414 and 1415.