Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry 43 An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Lady Hillingdon, D.B.E.
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Sister’s) badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953; Women’s Voluntary Service Medal; France, Fourth Republic, Medal of Gratitude 1946, silver, unnamed, with rosette on riband; United States of America, American National Red Cross Medal, silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Lady Hillingdon. For Distinguished Service, The American National Red Cross’, mounted court style for wear, edge bruise to Defence Medal, otherwise good very fine and better (6)
£160-£200
D.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1939 Edith Mary Winifred, Baroness Hillingdon: ‘For political and public service.’
Order of St. John, Commander (Sister) London Gazette 22 June 1951.
Edith Mary Winifred, Lady Hillingdon, was born the Hon. Edith Mary Winifred Cadogan on 1 August 195, the daughter of Viscount Chelsea, and married the Hon. Arthur Robert Mills in 1916, who succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Hillingdon in 1919. Lady Hillingdon died on 4 June 1969.
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An Order of St John group of five awarded to Senior Reserve Attendant W. J. Johnson, Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve and St John’s Ambulance Brigade
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (M.10234 W. J. Johnson. S.R.A. R.N.); Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, with additional service clasp (2509 W. J. Johnson. L.S.B.A. R.N.A.S.B.R.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, with 6 additional service clasps, three silver and three plated (3196 Cpl. W. J. Johnson (C. of Coventry) Div. No. 3 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and scarce (5)
£400-£500 Order of St John, Officer, 16 November 1955.
R.N.A.S.B.R. L.S. & G.C. awarded 8 June 1922 in rank of Leading Sick Berth Attendant, which rate replaced that of Senior Reserve Attendant in 1921.
L.S. & G.C. clasp awarded 6 May 1941.
William John Johnson was born in Coventry on 4 October 1888. He enrolled into the Co-op Division of the St John Ambulance Brigade on 7 April 1908, and on the outbreak of war joined the Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve on a one-year engagement on 8 October 1914. He was placed in H.M.S. Pembroke I, Barrack and Nominal Depot Ship at Chatham, as a Junior Reserve Attendant, and a fortnight later he was transferred to the Royal Sailors’ Home at Chatham. He was promoted to Senior Reserve Attendant on 24 March 1915 and in July 1915 he volunteered to serve until the end of hostilities. He returned to Pembroke I on 11 December 1915 and was then sent to H.M.S. Dominion, battleship, where he served until 4 April 1918, when he moved to a sister ship, H.M.S. Commonwealth, where he remained until he was demobilised on 29 April 1919.
In civilian life he returned to the St John Ambulance Brigade and transferred to the City of Coventry Division at its establishment on 25 September 1919. He is last shown in City of Coventry records in 1952 and disappears from the Roll of Membership between 1957 and 1961.
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An Order of St. John pair attributed to S. Clark, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 2nd type, silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles flush with the background; St. John Service Medal, 1 silver clasp, unnamed, silver-bronze, mounted as worn, together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re- Examination Cross, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘A126195 Sidney Clark’; and a St. John Ambulance Association cap badge, good very fine
Jubilee 1935 (William Hardcastle, J.P.) contemporarily engraved naming, nearly extremely fine
A ‘Malaya’ clasp for the General Service Medal 1918-62, in named card box of issue to ‘Capt. J. Cameron-Hayes, M.V. O., R.A.’, extremely fine
£50-£70 William Hardcastle served as Chairman of the Pateley Bridge Rural District Council, Yorkshire.
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