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8 & 9 May 2019

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Lot

№ 599

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8 May 2019

Hammer Price:
£75

British War Medal 1914-20 (E. T. Mac Swinney. V.A.D.) mounted as worn, about extremely fine £60-£80

O.B.E. London Gazette 8 January 1919: Miss Elsie Trant MacSwinney, Staff Commandant, Motor and Training Departments, Joint Women’s V.A.D. Detachment, British Red Cross and Order of St. John
‘For services in connection with the War.’

Miss Elsie Trant MacSwinney served during the Great War as a Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, British Red Cross and Order of St. John during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 February to 16 March 1918, where she was employed on Inspection Duty, Motor Convoys (not entitled to a Victory Medal).