A French pair awarded to Miss Louie Barker

France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage to reverse centre; Gratitude Medal, 1946 issue, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Miss Louie Barker’, mounted for wear, very fine and better (lot) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Ex Flatow Collection, Spink, 25 November 1998.

Legion of Honour London Gazette 14 February 1950.

Miss Louie Barker, of St. Wilfred’s Circus, Gipton, Leeds, an Inspector-Passer at George Bray & Co. Ltd., electrical engineers at Leeds, was awarded the Legion of Honour and Medal of Gratitude in recognition of her work for the French Forces during the war. She was engaged in relief work for the French forces - organising the knitting of comforts and the collection of money. Some 300 women at Brays sent well over 2,000 knitted articles and collected over £2,000.

Sold with Legion of Honour bestowal document, dated December 1949; letter from the French Ambassador relating to the award of the Legion of Honour, dated 22 December 1949; letters and telegrams of congratulation; picture booklet, ‘Mémorial de la Guerre’, signed ‘With compliments of General A. Lelong’; copied gazette extract; newspaper cuttings related to the awards; with other papers.