Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

A post-War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Mrs. Winifred Torrance, née Gentles, County Director, Nottinghamshire Branch, British Red Cross Society, late Voluntary Aid Detachment
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (W. Gentles. V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals (W. Gentles. V.A.D.); Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with Seven ‘Geneva cross’ Additional Award Bars (Winifred Torrance.) mounted as worn, very fine

Three: Captain W. T. Torrance, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches for his services in Egypt
1914-15 Star (Capt. W. T. Torrance. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. W. T. Torrance.) mounted as worn, the medals all somewhat blackened with age, very fine

Seven: Miss Mary T. Torrance
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Miss Mary T. Torrance.) mounted as worn, good very fine (16) £300-£400

O.B.E. London Gazette 5 June 1952.

Winifred Torrance, née Gentles, served as a Nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War from 30 April 1915. She married Captain W. T. Torrance, Royal Army Medical Corps prior to the War’s end, and was subsequently County Director of the Nottinghamshire Branch of the British Red Cross Society, for which she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1952.

W. T. Torrance served with the South Midland Brigade Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force) during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War from May 1915, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 6 July 1917 and 5 June 1919).

Mary T. Torrance was the daughter of Captain W. T. and Winifred Torrance.