St John Ambulance Brigade Badge: Miss Doris Grey, Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments

Black enamelled white metal badge showing the Maltese cross of St John Ambulance Association within a circlet bearing the words 'THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION', set on a ribbon scroll bearing the words 'ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE'. A brooch pin is set across the back of the badge.

Associated with the service of Miss Doris H Grey, a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) of the Australian Red Cross between 1915 and 1919. The squad to which she was attached was based at Marrickville in Sydney. In 1919, in the course of her work as a VAD, Doris met and fell in love with Private Colin James Irwin, a recently returned serviceman who had lost his leg as a result of wounds received during the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. They were married at Petersham in 1920.