WWI/WWII, Voluntary Aid Detachment Group of four to Ruth Yeo...

Hammer

£850

WWI/WWII, Voluntary Aid Detachment Group of four to Ruth Yeoman, WWI Pair (R. Yeoman VAD), Defence, Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with British Red Cross Society Proficiency Medal;  an comprehensive scrap album,  showing all Ruth Yeoman's tours, with Joint Women's V.A.D. Department acceptance letter, hand drawn map of N France showing country covered Oct 1917 - April 1919,  postcards General Headquarters of British Armies in France, Northern France Oct 1917 - April 1919,  watercolours, Routine Orders, Driving Certificate, photographs, showing inspection by HM Queen Mary 1917, air raid reports and casualties, newspaper cuttings, ferry tickets,bread ticket,  etc  

Ruth Yeoman was born in North Yorkshire on 29th October 1897 to Harry, a Linen Manufacturer and Margaret Elizabeth Yeoman. She was baptised on the 4th December 1897 in Brompton. She had a brother Cdr Antony Yeoman RN. She died in 1994 and is buried with her mother and brother in St Thomas Churchyard Brompton. She served with the WVS in World War II and after the war was a missionary in Canada.