Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Miss M. V. Burnham, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who served at the Canadian Convalescent Home for Officers at Dieppe

1914-15 Star (M. V. Burnham, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (M. V. Burnham, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.), nearly extremely fine (3) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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Vivian Burnham, a Canadian passport holder, enrolled in the British Red Cross Society in April 1915 and served as a Nursing Sister at the Canadian Convalescent Home for Officers, Dieppe and Oceanville, gaining a mention in despatches (London Gazette 30 December 1918 refers). She was discharged in August 1918; also see Lots 1136 and 1164.