Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Nurse Miss M. Pritchard-Jones, British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem

British War and Victory Medals (M. Pritchard-Jones. B.R.C.S. & St. J. J.) very fine (2) £70-£90

Mary Pritchard-Jones lived at Woodbine House, Holyhead, North Wales, and enrolled for war service in the trained nurse detachment (V.A.D.) of the British Red Cross on 19 April 1917. Posted to France two days later, she served as a Staff Nurse at No. 2 Anglo-Belgian Hospital at Calais until 22 July 1918, and was later released from service on 14 August 1919.

A note offered by the vendor states that the recipient was the aunt of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert ‘H’ Jones, V.C., O.B.E.