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№ 540

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8 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£140

Five: Nena G. Taylor, British Red Cross Society

Order of the League of Mercy, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘N. G. Taylor’, on bow ribbon; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, 1 clasp (Nena G. Taylor); British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18 (N. G. Taylor) privately engraved, complete with brooch bar; British Red Cross Society Proficiency Cross, for Red Cross First Aid, enamelled, reverse inscribed, ‘01404 Nena Taylor’; British Red Cross Society 10 Year Service Badge, enamelled, pin-backed, about extremely fine (5) £100-140

Miss Nena Garty Taylor was born in Brixton c.1875/76. Lived in London for most of her life but later lived in Cromer, Norfolk. Unmarried, she died there in August 1948. With copied roll extracts and research re the League of Mercy.