Medals to the Croker and Ekin Families

Pair: Canteen Worker Phyllis M. Croker, French Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (M. E. [sic] Croker) nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the Croker and Ekin Families.

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Phyllis Marian Croker was born in 1898, the daughter of Major-General Sir Henry Croker, and served as a Canteen Worker with the French Red Cross during the Great War on the Western Front from April 1918. It is not known why her medals are named to M. E. Croker, although the adjacent name on the Great War medal roll is to Canteen Worker Mabel E. Croker, French Red Cross, and is is probable that the two ladies’ medals were incorrectly issued.

Miss Croker married Major-General Roger Ekin in 1923, with whom she had one son and two daughters. She died in 1967.

Sold with a photograph album compiled by the recipient in France during the Great War, including a photograph of the recipient, and various photographs of Verdun in 1918; a Verdun tribute medal in bronze; and a letter to the recipient from the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India, thanking her for her services in connection with the W.V.S. activities in Nowshera since 1942, dated 17 April 1945.