British War Medal 1914-20 (D. H. Darley.) extremely fine £80-£100

British War Medal 1914-20 (D. H. Darley.) extremely fine £80-£100 --- Miss Daphne Harriot Darley was born in Paris in January 1878, the second daughter of Captain Henry Darley of Aldby Park, Yorkshire. As a young 22 year-old woman she served as a popular Lady Mayoress of Scarborough after the premature death of her mother. She later volunteered for the Y.M.C.A. during the Great War, before transferring to the Church Army in the summer of 1918 and served in Italy from June 1918 to February 1919. Posted to France from February 1919 to April 1919, it seems likely that she spent these final months assisting with conveying families across the Channel so that they could visit loved ones in hospital; with information scant and the scale of loss so huge, it also fell to volunteers to offer spiritual comfort and practical advice for thousands of bereaved families keen to begin a pilgrimage to the battlefields. The sensitive and often upsetting work was unpaid and the Church Army and Y.M.C.A. volunteers had to meet their own living expenses. Returned home to 7 Trevor Square, Knightsbridge, Miss Darley married Lieutenant-Colonel John Acton Brooke in London on 7 May 1930. The couple later returned north to the family seat at Aldby Park before retiring to Sibton Park, Saxmundham, Suffolk. She died there on 28 February 1954. Confirmed as full entitlement. Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient.