Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A scarce Second War B.E.M. group of three awarded to Corporal Clerk Miss Eva M. Sewart, Voluntary Aid Detachment

British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (No. W/564050 Cpl. Clk. Eva M. Sewart. V.A.D.) mounted as worn on lady’s bow riband; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s two British Red Cross Society Proficiency Crosses, gilt and enamel, the first with ‘Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing’ integral top riband bar (20580 E. Sewart); the second with ‘Proficiency in Red Cross First-Aid’ integral top riband bar (28670 E. Sewart); a British Red Cross Society Count of East Lancs. Badge, gilt and enamel (33845 E. Sewart); and a Mobile V.A.D. arm band, nearly extremely fine (6) £500-£700

B.E.M. London Gazette 2 June 1943.

Miss Eva Margaret Sewart was born in Chorley, Lancashire, on 18 March 1916, and enrolled in the British Red Cross Society on 15 June 1937. She served during the Second World War as a Corporal Clerk with the Voluntary Aid Detachment at the Military Hospital, Lancaster, from 9 September 1940.

One of only 27 British Empire Medals awarded to women of the Voluntary Aid Detachment for the Second World War.