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A Great War 'Civil Division' M.B.E. group of four awarded Miss Katherine A. B. Landon,...
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A Great War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of four awarded Miss Katherine A. B. Landon, Assistant Commandant and Quartermaster, Devon Voluntary Aid Detachment 66, Exmouth, who brought honour to the County by being the first Devon recipient of the M.B.E. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1916, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with seven Additional Award Bars (Katherine A. B. Landon.); Belgium, Kingdom, Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, bronze; together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, bronze, with integral top riband bar; British Red Cross Society For Merit Medal (2614 B. Landon.); and British Red Cross Society Honorary Life Member badge (3478), generally good very fine (7) £100-£140 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 24 August 1917. Katherine Ann Brenda Landon was born at Ealing in 1879 and by 1881 she was living in Lympstone, Devon. She helped to found Devon/66 Exmouth Detachment British Red Cross Society in 1911 and during the Great War she served as Quartermaster of Exmouth Volunteer Aid Hospital from October 1914 before being appointed Quartermaster and Assistant Commandant in April 1917, posts she held until 1919. In recognition of her service during the Great War Miss Landon was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; this was the 31st M.B.E. awarded and the first for the County of Devon. She also received from the Belgium authorities the Medal de la Reine Elisabeth. An Honorary Life Member of the British Red Cross Society she was awarded the Voluntary Medical Services Medal with seven additional award bars representing over 50 years of service to the BRCS movement. She died at Exmouth on 20 January 1969, aged 89, having spent nearly 50 years as Commandant of the Exmouth Detachment. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and other research.
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A Great War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of four awarded Miss Katherine A. B. Landon, Assistant Commandant and Quartermaster, Devon Voluntary Aid Detachment 66, Exmouth, who brought honour to the County by being the first Devon recipient of the M.B.E. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1916, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with seven Additional Award Bars (Katherine A. B. Landon.); Belgium, Kingdom, Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, bronze; together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, bronze, with integral top riband bar; British Red Cross Society For Merit Medal (2614 B. Landon.); and British Red Cross Society Honorary Life Member badge (3478), generally good very fine (7) £100-£140 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 24 August 1917. Katherine Ann Brenda Landon was born at Ealing in 1879 and by 1881 she was living in Lympstone, Devon. She helped to found Devon/66 Exmouth Detachment British Red Cross Society in 1911 and during the Great War she served as Quartermaster of Exmouth Volunteer Aid Hospital from October 1914 before being appointed Quartermaster and Assistant Commandant in April 1917, posts she held until 1919. In recognition of her service during the Great War Miss Landon was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; this was the 31st M.B.E. awarded and the first for the County of Devon. She also received from the Belgium authorities the Medal de la Reine Elisabeth. An Honorary Life Member of the British Red Cross Society she was awarded the Voluntary Medical Services Medal with seven additional award bars representing over 50 years of service to the BRCS movement. She died at Exmouth on 20 January 1969, aged 89, having spent nearly 50 years as Commandant of the Exmouth Detachment. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and other research.
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