Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Sister Mary A. Redwood, Territorial Army Nursing Service

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, with Lady’s Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Swansea General and Eye Hospital Badge, bronze, the reverse inscribed, ‘3 Mary A. Redwood’, with brooch bar, good very fine (6) £180-£220

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008.

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1958. ‘Miss Mary Ann Redwood, Health Visitor, Monmouthshire County Council’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 8 November 1945:
‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe’.

Sold with three letters regarding the award of the M.B.E.; War Office notification of the Mention in Despatches; Statutes booklet for the Order of the British Empire; a photograph of the recipient outside Buckingham Palace having been awarded the M.B.E., a souvenir Programme to mark the Visit of the Prince of Wales to Ebbw Vale, 4 July 1969; and various other ephemera. The recipient’s address given on several of the papers is ‘Holmlea, Eureka Place, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire’.