Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Four: N. Finburgh, Special Constabulary, late British Red Cross Society and British National Cadet Association

Defence Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long and Faithful Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Bar for ‘Long Service 1945’ (Neville Finburgh); British National Cadet Association, silver medal, hallmarks for Birmingham 1934, with slide-on ‘B.N.C.A.’ clasp, obverse, lion seated before a Union flag, reverse, an eagle and coronet; British Red Cross Society War Service 1914-18, mounted as worn, good very fine and unusual

Pair: Mary B. Renny, Voluntary Medical Services

Defence Medal 1939-45; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with 5 Bars (Mary B. Renny), mounted as worn, good very fine

Pair: Miss Margaret Rushforth, Voluntary Medical Services

Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Miss Margaret Rushforth, S.R.N., H.V.); Warwick Rotary Club , silver and enamel award, with “For Meritorious Service’ riband brooch, the reverse inscribed ‘Miss Margaret Rushforth, 1984’, both in card boxes of issue, good very fine (8)
£80-120

The British National Cadet Association (B.N.C.A.) was charged with the upkeep of cadet interests in the 1920s and 1930s, and, under the guidance of the Territorial Army Association, was permitted to run its own force. The advent of hostilities, however, led to a number of changes within cadet organisations, and at the end of the War the B.N.C.A. was retitled the Army Cadet Force Association (A.C.F.A.); sold with original Special Constabulary Long and Faithful Service Medal ‘instructions for wear’, which divulge that the Finburgh was a member of the Salford Constabulary.