Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Miss D. M. Paynter, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, one of just 15 members of the corps to be Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (D. M. Paynter, F.A.N.Y.C.); together with, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1914-18 Service Medal; B.R.C.S. (Army Medical Service) embroidered uniform armband, dated ‘7.2.17’; silver identity bracelet, inscribed ‘D. Paynter, F.A.N.Y., Unit 3’; F.A.N.Y. bronze badge, by Spink, London; and an attractive circular carved wooden F.A.N.Y. badge, 100mm. diameter, generally good very fine or better (7) £400-500

Ex. Bill Fevyer Collection, Spink, 25 November 1998.

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 December 1918.

Miss D. M. Paynter was serving in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Motor Ambulance Convoy at the time of being Mentioned in Despatches by Sir Douglas Haig.