Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Cook and Orderly Louise Haviland, British Red Cross Society and Scottish Women’s Hospitals

British War and Victory Medals (L. Haviland.); Serbia, Kingdom, Medal for Zeal, bronze-gilt, unnamed, good very fine (3) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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Louise Haviland was born in 1891 and lived at Lane Farm, Maidenhead Thicket, Berkshire. Initially serving as Cook at the Technical Institute Auxiliary Red Cross Hospital in Maidenhead, she transferred to the London unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals as Orderly on 21 April 1917. Posted overseas to Macedonia in the spring of 1918, a note accompanying the lot adds: ‘For her services with this unit she was awarded the Medal of Zeal by the Serbs, confirmed in the records of the SWH.’

These records are absent from the lot, hence the Serbian award remains unconfirmed.