Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Canteen Worker Mrs. Una C. M. Strickland, French Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (U. C. M. Strickland.); France, Third Republic, Victory Medal, bronze; Médaille Commemorative de la Guerre 1914-18, bronze; together with additional examples of the last two French medals, good very fine (6) £100-£140

Mrs Una Clara Margaret Strickland was born in 1882, the daughter of Charles Bell, and married Claude Hugh Strickland on 12 February 1908. Their son, Claud Dobrée Strickland, was killed in action while serving as a Flying Officer in 1941. She died in Maidstone, Kent, on 5 February 1959.

Sold with a Woman's Legion headers badge and an original document conveying permission for Mrs Strickland to be absent in June 1917.