Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Attributed to Third Officer G. Humphrys, Women’s Royal Naval Service
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; with Admiralty enclosure, in named card box of issued addressed to ‘Miss G. Humphreys, Greenbank, Hastings Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex’; together with a silver A.R.P. lapel badge in red box of issue, with an official receipt slip for the badge issued by Bexhill Borough Council, extremely fine

Three: Attributed to Miss B. A. Chance, Auxiliary Territorial Service
France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-4r, with Army Council enclosure, in partially named card box of issue, very fine

Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with five Additional Award Bars, four with Geneva Cross and one with Kings Crown centre, with V.A.D. top suspension pin bar (Margaret E. Tuttiett.) good very fine (7) £70-£90

Miss Georgina Humphrys appears in the October 1945 Navy List as Third Officer Women’s Royal Naval Service, with seniority 12 March 1944. She still appears in the Navy List for 1958 as Third Officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

Margaret E. Tuttiett of 4 Cranfield Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, appears on the list of British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-18, and worked as a full time V.A.D. Assistant Nurse for V.A.D. Detachment Sussex 24, at The Red Cross Hospital at 13-15, Cantelupe Road, Bexhill-on-Sea. She died at Bexhill-on-Sea in 1970.