Great War Home Front British Red Cross Society pair awarded to Charles Tucker, British Red Cross, whose British Red Cross Society Proficiency Cross for Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid, was allegedly presented to him during 1916 by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC.
British Red Cross Society War Service Medal 1914-1918, unnamed as issued, complete with original ribbon and top bar, and house in its J.R. Gaunt card box of issue; British Red Cross Society Proficiency Cross for Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid, gilt and enamels, reverse engraved: ‘02790 C. TUCKER’, complete with original ribbon and top bar.
Condition: enamel work good, overall Good Very Fine, the card box for the first is scuffed.
According a a typed note which accompanies the medals, these were awarded to Charles Tucker, who qualified in First Aid through the British Red Cross Society, and saw service during the Great War. The British Red Cross Society War Service Medal 1914-1918 was instituted in 1920, and awarded to British Red Cross members who did not see overseas service, but nevertheless worked on the home front and completed either 500 hours as an ambulance driver or stretcher bearer, or 1000 hours of other work. The British Red Cross Society Proficiency Cross for Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid, which is named to Tucker, was earned after passing three successive Red Cross First Aid exams with at least a year’s interval. The note which accompanies this pair, states that ‘it is thought that this medal was presented to Charles Tucker in 1916 by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC’. We cannot vouch for the validity of this comment.
