Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant Lucy B. Joynson, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps

1914-15 Star (L. B. Joynson, F.A.N.Y.C.); British War and Victory Medals (L. B. Jounson. F.A.N.Y.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, with star emblem on riband; Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration, 1st Class, 1 clasp, 1914-1915, enamel chipped and reverse centre lacking; Queen Elizabeth Medal, bronze, with red cross suspension; together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn; and a First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1914-1918 War Service Medal, generally good very fine or better (7) £1,400-£1,800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2000.

Miss Lucy Brenda Joynson was born in 1884 and trained as a nurse, becoming what was known as a ‘monthly’ nurse, working in private homes as required. Following the outbreak of the Great War she joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and was one of the few qualified F.A.N.Y.s to go to France in October 1914 (most of the other members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry had only been trained as first aiders). She initially served as a Trooper with No. 4 General Hospital in France, before being commissioned Lieutenant and served at No. 56 Hospital at La March Gala, where she became Co-Director of the hospital until it closed at the end of 1916, having treated over 4000 Belgian soldiers. For her services during the Great War she was awarded the French Croix de Guerre and the Belgian Croix Civique. She died in Colwyn in 1977.

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