Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Nursing Sister Miss Cordelia Mayman, French Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (C. Mayman.); France, Third Republic, Médaille de la Société Française de Secours aux Blessés Militaire, silver, unnamed; Croix de la Société Française de Secours aux Blessés Militaire, silver, unnamed; Insigne National de l’Union de Femmes de France, 3rd issue, silver, reverse numbered ‘5274’; Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française 1914-18, bronze; Médaille Commemorative de la Guerre 1914-18, bronze, good very fine, scarce (7) £240-280

Miss Cordelia Mayman was born in Camden Town, London, on 15 February 1873, and served during the Great War with the English Hospital at Limoges from September 1914 (not entitled to a Star), and subsequently with the French Red Cross at the Countess of Lytton’s Hospital. She died in Cheltenham on 5 April 1938.