Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1202 x

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£110

An Order of St. John group of four awarded to County Staff Officer F. E. L. Newman, St. John Ambulance Brigade

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem
, Officer’s (Sister’s) breast badge, silver base metal and enamel; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s breast badge, silver, silver base metal, in its fitted case of issue; Civil Defence Long Service, E.II.R., unnamed as issued; St. John Service Medal, with 5 Bars (16620 A./Sis., Acton & H’smith Nsg. Div., No. 1 Dis., S.J.A.B., 1937), the first and last two mounted as worn, enamel work slightly chipped in places, otherwise generally good very fine, together with related S.J.A.B. re-examination badge, the reverse inscribed ‘252891 Florence E. L. Swann’ (5) £100-120

Florence Ethel Leonora Newman (nee Swann) was created a Serving Sister of the Order of St. John in February 1954 and an Officer (Sister) in November 1957; sold with original notification document for the award of a 4th Bar to her St. John Service Medal, addressed to ‘County Staff Officer F. E. Newman, Cumberland and Westmorland.’