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Four: Miss Francis Freeman-Taylor, British Red Cross Society
France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with clasp (Miss Francis Freeman-Taylor) mounted as worn
Three: Sister L. D. Wyatt, Territorial Army Nursing Service
Defence and War Medals; Territorial Force Nursing Service Cape Badge, all three privately engraved (Sister L. D. Wyatt, T.A.N.S.) very fine and better (7) £40-60
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.
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Miss Francis Catherine Freeman-Taylor enrolled into the Berkshire Detachment of the Red Cross Society in March 1929. During the war she served in the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, 1939-44; then served overseas in the British General Hospital, Belgium during 1944. She was discharged from the Army in September 1945. Miss Freeman-Taylor was awarded the Voluntary Service Medal in 1944 for 15 years qualified service with the British Red Cross Society and was awarded a clasp in 1949. With copied research.
Medals to ‘Wyatt’ with War Office letter dated 24 March 1947 relating to the award of the war medals, addressed to ‘Sister L. D. Wyatt (TANS), 25 Richmond Wood Road, Bournemouth’.
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