Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

A post-War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Mrs. Marjorie H. Freeman, Women’s Royal Voluntary Service
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type badge, silver; Defence Medal; Women’s Royal Voluntary Service Long Service Medal, with two additional Long Service bars, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine

Three: Lieutenant M. J. L. Freeman, Royal Navy
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Lieut. M. J. L. Freeman, R.N.) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £200-£240

M.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1976: Marjorie Helen, Mrs. Freeman, Head of Refugee Department, Headquarters, Women’s Royal Voluntary Service.

Sold with a letter to the recipient from The Baroness Pike, Chairman of the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service, on the occasion of the recipient’s retirement as Chairman of the Management Committee of the The Briars care home, Sandown, Isle of Wight, dated January 1979