WW1 Era Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild Volunteers Worker Badge

A good original First World War era 'Queen Mary's Needlework Guild’ volunteer worker's gilt and enamel badge, comes in the form of a Crowned MR cypher Tudor rose, suspended from a 'Q.M.N.G.' bar. Below is a brief history for the inception of the guild, this example comes in very good condition for its age and measures 1.75 inches long.
The Queen Mary's Needlework Guild came into being after just a few days into the Great War, when Queen Mary's issued a letter on the 4th August 1914 through the Press, to the Women of the Empire asking that it might be rendered 'To alleviate all distress occasioned by the War!' which was the purpose of the guild to provide comforts and create articles of clothing and surgical equipment as well as other gifts to the troops fighting for King and Country at home and abroad.

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