Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Miss Mable D. Jackson-Barstow, Women’s Voluntary Service, for services to Civil Defence in Weston-super-Mare

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, on lady’s bow riband; Defence Medal, with Home Secretary’s enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Miss M. D. Jackson-Barstow, The Lodge, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset’; Women’s Voluntary Service Medal, unnamed as issued, in Royal Mint case of issue; together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, in card box of issue, and various British Red Cross Society Badges, gilt and enamel, two of which are named ‘M. Barstow’, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140

M.B.E. London Gazette 9 January 1946: Miss Mabel Dorothy Jackson-Barstow, Joint Centre Organiser, Weston-super-Mare, Women’s Voluntary Service
‘For services to Civil Defence.’

Miss Mable Dorothy Jackson-Barstow, the second daughter of John Jeremiah Jackson-Barstow, J.P., D.L., of The Lodge, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, served during the Great War as a Nurse on General Duty at Ashcombe House Auxiliary Hospital, Weston-super-Mare, from December 1915 to December 1918, and during the Second World War as a Centre Organiser, Women’s Voluntary Service for Civil Defence, at Weston-super-Mare, from September 1939 to May 1945. Commenting on the award of her M.B.E., she said: ‘I feel it is an honour paid to the Women’s Voluntary Service as a whole, for what the organisation did during the blitz on the town.’

Sold with the Bestowal Document for the M.B.E., with Central Chancery and Buckingham Palace enclosures, in envelope of issue; British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem Certificate for valuable service; Voluntary Aid Detachment Service Certificate; a photographic image of the recipient; various shoulder titles and riband bars; and copied research.