Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family Group:

Pair: British War and Victory Medals (185471 Gnr. C. B. Hynd, R.A.); Voluntary Medical Services Medal (2), (I. J. Hynd; Miss Isobel J. Hynd) the first with two long service bars, together with Red Cross Profficiency Medals (2), for Red Cross Nursing with enamelled bars for 1934, 1936, 1938, and 1940 (10766 I. J. Hynd), and for Red Cross First-Aid with enamelled bars for 1935 and 1937 (18272 I. J. Hynd)

Pair: British War and Victory Medals (3149 Tpr. J. Steel, Household Bn.); Five: 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Voluntary Medical Services Medal (D. Steel); Voluntary Medical Services Medal (Christian B. Steel); together with 13 large and 10 small St Andrew’s Ambulance Corps buttons and two brass shoulder titles ‘StAAC’, generally good very fine (39) £80-100

The Hynd and Steel families are related by marriage. It is believed that most of them were members of the St Andrew’s Ambulance Corps and that they had strong connections with Broughty Ferry (See also Lot 413).