Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (B. G. Norris-Jones. V.A.D.); together with a Serbian Red Cross Society, London, Medal, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine, the last scarce (2) £80-£100

Barbara Gwyn Norris-Jones was born in Plymstock, Devon, on 3 March 1866 and is shown on medal roll as having served as a Clerk with the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 October 1916 to 17 June 1920. She died in Bodmin, Cornwall, in 1972.

Note: The Serbian Red Cross Medal was bought by the present vendor alongside the British War Medal, but no definite confirmation of its award to Barbara Norris-Jones has been found.