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21 May 2020

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№ 356

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21 May 2020

Hammer Price:
£4,200

A rare Great War campaign group of five awarded to Corporal Doris Moody, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals (D. Moody F.A.N.Y.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, with bronze star emblem on riband; Belgium, Kingdom, Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, bronze; France, Third Republic, Medaille de Secours aux Blesses Militaries, mounted as worn, generally good fine (5) £220-£260

Doris Moody served during the Great War in France from April 1916; she was one of 17 members of her Corps to be awarded the Croix de Guerre with bronze star, one of 38 awarded the Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, and one of 20 awarded the Medaille de Secours aux Blesses Militaries.