Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The rare Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Miss Lilian A. Forse, Voluntary Aid Detachement

Military Medal, G.V.R. (Miss L. A. Forse, V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals (L. A. Forse, V.A.D.); together with a British Red Cross Society Distinguished Service Badge, gilt and enamel, by J. Gaunt, London, reverse inscribed, ‘L. A. Forse M.M. Replacement), this last in card box, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (4) £1600-2000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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M.M. London Gazette 4 June 1918. ‘Mrs Lilian Audrey Forse, V.A.D., attached No. 53 General Hospital, France.’ 'For courage and devotion to duty displayed when during a hostile air raid a bomb fell on the hospital marquee of which she was in charge. Although great damage was done and many patients injured, she showed admirable coolness in the performance of her duties throughout, and carried on as if nothing had happened'.