Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Mrs. Peggy M. Gardner, British Red Cross Society

Defence Medal, with Home Secretary’s enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. P. M. Gardner, 29 Capethorn Road, Smethwick, 41, Staffs.’; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., unnamed as issued, in Royal Mint case of issue; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Mrs. Peggy M. Gardner); together with three British Red Cross Society Medals, all named ‘P. M. Gardner’, with top riband bars for Proficiency in Infant & Child Welfare, Red Cross First Aid, and Red Cross Nursing, all in named card boxes of issue; a British Red Cross Society Long Service Medal, for 3 Years’ Service, with two additional ‘3 Years’ Service’ award bars; and a British Red Cross Society ‘For Merit’ badge, good very fine (lot) £60-£80

Mrs. Peggy Gardner started in the Civil Defence organisation in 1939 and joined the Red Cross in 1943, becoming assistant cadet officer of the Staffordshire 172 branch, attached to the Smethwick Ambulance Service. She also served in the National Hospital Reserve at Dudley Hospital, and also at Birmingham Accident Hospital.

Sold together with a portrait photograph of the recipient, and various newspaper cuttings and other ephemera.