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Auction: 25003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 61

The Great War pair awarded to Nurse E. M. Tonkin, Voluntary Aid Detachment, late British Red Cross Society, who died in active service in France on 14 October 1918

British War and Victory Medals (E. M. Tonkin. V.A.D.), good very fine (2)

43 members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment lost their lives as a result of the Great War, through disease or being killed in action.

Edith Mary Tonkin was born in 1893 at Crediton, Devon, the daughter of Walter John & Elizabeth Tonkin, who were farmers at the time. They inherited a pub in Ely, near Cardiff and thus grew up there. A member of No. 250 (London) Detachment, she served as a Ward Maid at No. 3 General Hospital in France from November 1917 and died of pneumonia on 14 October 1918. She was aged just 26 and is buried in the Mont-Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport.

She is further commemorated upon the Llandaff War Memorial, alongside her younger brother William John (Jack), who was killed in action at the Battle of Loos.

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240