A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Sister Ethel R. Whittington, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, with integral top riband bar, in card box of issue; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of the Marine, small gold medal, the reverse officially named ‘Miss Whittington 1908’, gold marks to edge with rosette on riband, in Ch. Marey, Paris, red leather case of issue, extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, February 2019. A.R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917. Ethel Rose Whittington served during the Great War as a Sister at Moray Lodge Hospital, Camden Hill, London, and was decorated by the King at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 6 April 1918.
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Three: Staff Nurse Lydia T. Wynn, Territorial Force Nursing Service British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse L. T. Wynne [sic].); Portugal, Republic, Order of Christ, Chevalier’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, with two gilt slide bars on riband, nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180 --- Lydia Theresa Wynn initially served as Staff Nurse in the medical wards at the Northern General Hospital from 26 October 1915 to 13 July 1917. Transferred to the 30th General Hospital in Boulogne, she was discharged from the service in April 1919 and awarded the Portuguese Chevalier of the Order of Christ on 26 November 1919. Returned home to Beverley in Yorkshire, her Nursing Service Record adds: ‘A very good nurse and kind to the patients.’ Sold with the recipient’s T.F.N.S. cape badge with top wearing pin.
Japan, Empire, Order of the Sacred Treasure (3), Sixth Class breast badge, 44mm, silver and enamel, complete with sacred beads, with original riband with full hook and eye assembly; Seventh Class breast badge, 38mm, silver-gilt, with original riband with full hook and eye assembly; Eighth Class breast badge, 38mm, silver, with original riband with full hook and eye assembly, with one lapel rosette, all in rio-nuri lacquered cases of issue, extremely fine (3) £60-£80 --- Sold with a poor-quality copy of the Sixth Class breast badge
A Great War M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain W. J. H. Pontin, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type, breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, privately engraved to reverse ‘William James Henry Pontin 1900’; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (Supt. W. J. H. Pontin No.1 Dist); Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Supt. W. J. H. Pontin); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (W. J. H. Pontin. Supt.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Dist. Ch. Supt. W. J. H. Pontin.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, with two Additional Award Bars (Dist --pt Secretary W. J. H. Pontin. 10. July ----) some areas of wear to naming, the earlier awards polished, nearly very fine and better (8) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919. William James Henry Pontin was born in Shoreditch, London, on 19 February 1868. Recorded as a millinery manufacturer living in Islington in 1911, he was later appointed Officer of the Venerable Order of St John in the London Gazette of 23 June 1939, whilst serving as Stores Manager for the St John Ambulance Association. He died at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, in 1952.
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister Mabel O. Lindsay, Canadian Army Medical Corps, late Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, the obverse privately engraved to obverse ‘Mabel Ogilvie Lindsay June 1918’, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (N. Sister M. O. Lindsay. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (N. Sister M. O. Lindsay) good very fine (4) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 21 June 1918. Mabel Ogilvie Lindsay was born in Edinburgh on 12 July 1881 and completed her nursing studies at the Radcliffe County Hospital in Oxford. She spent the following three years with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service for India, before attesting for the Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Service on 29 March 1915. Appointed Nursing Sister at No. 16 Canadian General Hospital in Orpington, Kent, she received her A.R.R.C. at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 1919.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of five awarded to Major T. H. H. Carter, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, for gallantry at Mauquissart, near Neuve Chapelle Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major T. H. H. Carter.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, Long Service, 1947 (Thomas H. H. Carter) small chip to wreath on the first, otherwise good very fine (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 22 September 1916: ‘awarded for services at Mauquissart.’ ‘Carter, Thomas Healy Hunton, Capt. (Temporary), Royal Warwickshire Regt. For conspicuous gallantry. When the explosion of an enemy mine wrecked a portion of the defences, Capt. Carter, though dazed by the explosion, rallied the survivors under heavy shell fire and beat off a strong enemy attack. He has constantly shown great courage.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January 1917. Thomas Healy Hunton Carter was appointed Captain in the 5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 16 November 1914 (late Captain, 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry). He served in France with the 5th Battalion from 21 May 1916, was Mentioned in Despatches in 1917, and is entitled to the Silver War Badge. Sold with original documents including Warrant for D.S.O. and M.I.D. Certificate (Haig, 13 November 1916), together with copied research.
An impressive Order of St. John pair awarded to Sister Flora K. Fitzmaurice, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve, who risked her own life to save others during a serious typhus outbreak in 1897 The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband, the reverse privately engraved ‘Flora Kathleen Fitz Maurice Inniskea Augt. 1897. Conferred Augt. 1898.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Sister F. K. Fitzmaurice. I.Y. H.P. Staff.) good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Flora Kathleen Fitzmaurice trained as a nurse at the City of Dublin Nursing Institution and was one of 11 nurses selected from that hospital to nurse the victims of a typhus outbreak on the remote west coast island of Inniskea. Located off the coast of the Belmullet peninsula in County Mayo, the island offered extremely primitive working conditions. An extract from the British Journal of Nursing offers a vivid description: ‘The nurses who first went to the island had to cook both for the patients and for themselves, to wash their own clothes and to do everything that was possible under the circumstances for the patients also. The food was scant and of very bad quality. There were no beds, and when the nurses had done a hard day’s work in all the filth and misery prevailing among the people, they were often unable to cook any food for their own use, and had to go without... They had at one time forty-eight cases of typhus to nurse in the separate huts, and had to visit all of these patients two or three times a day. They made no complaint, but worked on until they both broke down, and both took typhus fever from those whom they were attending.’ Contracting typhus herself, Fitzmaurice was fortunate to survive. She was later decorated with the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the bestowal by the Countess Cadogan at the Vice-regal Lodge offering public recognition to both the individual nurses and the Order of St John, the group citation noting: ‘in recognition of very conspicuous and devoted conduct in the month of June, during an outbreak of virulent typhus fever on the Island of Inniskea on a very wild and barren part of the west coast of Ireland.’ Making a good recovery, Fitzmaurice enrolled in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 2 July 1900, and served on the Staff of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Dreelfontein during the Boer War. Sold with private research and a copied group photograph of the 11 nurses decorated by the Countess Cadogan, the recipient being among their ranks.
A fine Second War R.R.C. group of seven awarded to Matron Dora G. Grayson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, late Civil Hospital Reserve Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated ‘1942’, on lady’s bow riband; 1914 Star (Miss D. G. Grayson. Civ: Hosp: Res.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister. D. G. Grayson.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine and better (7) £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: Glendinings, September 1988. R.R.C. London Gazette 11 June 1942. Dora Granville Grayson was born in Kendal, Westmorland, on 16 March 1884, the daughter of wine and spirit merchant Oscar Granville Grayson. Educated at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College, she took her nursing studies at The London Hospital from 27 July 1910 to 28 July 1914 and then joined the Civil Hospital Reserve. This unit represented a group of trained nurses from throughout the United Kingdom who were vetted and recommended by their civil hospital matrons, each one willing and able to mobilise with the military nursing services in case of a future war; Grayson was promptly called up and disembarked in France on 8 August 1914, a member of the first party of 38 Civil Hospital Reserve nurses. Initially sent to No. 3 General Hospital at Rouen, Grayson transferred to the Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve on 8 November 1914 and was later accepted for the regular service as Staff Nurse in June 1916. Awarded the A.R.R.C. on 1 January 1918, she received her decoration at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 11 September 1918. Raised Sister, she continued to serve in France until the Armistice, latterly at No. 47 General Hospital. Sent to Hong Kong, Aldershot and York, Grayson finally resigned her appointment with effect from 4 July 1924. She returned to nursing during the Second World War and was awarded the R.R.C. as an Assistant Matron. She died on 16 April 1963. Sold with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge by J. R. Gaunt, London; Badge of the London Hospital, white metal and enamel, engraved to reverse ‘Dora G. Grayson May 1910-July 1912, July 1914’ by J. Pinches, London; General Nursing Council Registration Badge, silver, engraved to reverse ‘D. G. Grayson S.R.N. 23300 19.10.23.’ by Thomas Fattorini.
A post-War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Head V.A.D. Nursing Member (Naval Hospitals) Mabel Middleton, British Red Cross Society Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1947’, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver (Miss Mabel Middleton); together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal with Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing top riband bar, with three additional award bars, Red Cross Nursing 1943, Red Cross Nursing 1944, Red Cross Nursing 1945 (39976 M. Middleton); and British Red Cross Society 3 Years Service Medal, with three additional award bars, unnamed, with card boxes of issue, minor enamel loss to third, good very fine and better (4) £300-£400 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1947. Mabel Middleton joined the British Red Cross Society on 12 June 1940 and received her A.R.R.C. by registered post on 19 July 1947. Sold with the recipient’s original B.R.C.S. Certificate of Membership card, No. A43974, which notes her address as Trent Valley Road, Lichfield, this renewed to reverse until 1960; B.R.C.S. Certificate of Enrolment, Form D (8); two pairs of V.A.D. pin badges, enamel and base metal, by J. R. Gaunt, unworn and in original card boxes, in very good condition.
Pair: A. E. Duncan, British Red Cross Society Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with one Additional Award Bar and top V.A.D. riband bar (A. E. Duncan); together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal for Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid, with five clasps, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936, 1938 (07496 A. Duncan); British Red Cross Society Medal for Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing, with four clasps, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1937 (03947 A. Duncan); British Red Cross Society Medal for Proficiency in First Aid in Chemical Warfare, with two clasps, 1936, 1939 (203. A. Duncan); British Red Cross Society Medal for Proficiency in Red Cross Administration & Organisation (94. A. Duncan); Red Cross ‘For Merit’ badge, with three clasps, 1932, 1934, 1936 (884. A. Duncan) generally very fine and better (7) £60-£80 --- Sold with a B.R.C.S. City of Edinburgh enamel badge; B.R.C.S. 3 years’ service badges (4); Associate badge and shoulder ‘pips’ (6).
A fine Great War A.R.R.C., Dame of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem group of four awarded to Lady Superintendent-in-Chief Mrs. Beatrice H. Dent, The Most Venerable Order of Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and St. John Ambulance Brigade Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow ribbon; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Dame of Justice, gold and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1911, Police Ambulance Service (Beatrice Dent.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver (Mrs. Lancelot Dent A.R.R.C. For Conspicuous Service 1927.) good very fine and better (4) £700-£900 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 23 February 1917. Beatrice Holdsworth Dent (née Dimsdale) was born in Kensington on 19 July 1878, the daughter of Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale. A banker by profession, her father would later serve as Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1901 and Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1900 to 1906, becoming 1st Baronet Dimsdale on 24 July 1902. In 1899, Beatrice married underwriter Lancelot Wilkinson Dent. The couple soon became parents to a daughter and Beatrice began to focus more upon her work with The Order of St John of Jerusalem and St John Ambulance Brigade. Appointed Commandant and awarded the A.R.R.C., she was decorated by the King at an investiture held in Buckingham Palace on 25 April 1917. Raised Lady Superintendent-in-Chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, she left England in 1927 for a tour of inspection of India. For this work and other conspicuous service she was raised Dame of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the London Gazette of 3 January 1928. Relocating to Oxfordshire, she is recorded in 1939 as a member of staff of the Women’s Voluntary Service. She died on 30 September 1967 in Eastbourne.
Blues and Royals Officers 1871 Pattern Helmet and Breast Plates. A post-1953 example, the silvered skull complete with gilt metal overlays, the frontal Plate crowned rococo pattern silver beaded cut star with pierced Garter motto in gilt metal ground of blue and red enamel, with St George’s Cross, regulation pattern rose side ornaments and velvet lined chin chain. Standard pattern plume base and holder with red horse hair plume complete large rose finial and quilted lining; together with a pair of Officer’s Breast Plates, standard pattern in white medal trimmed with studded brass, complete with two leather lined straps, leather and fabric lining, very good condition (lot) £1,200-£1,600 --- Please note that this lot is not suitable for shipping, but can be hand delivered within mainland Britain by prior arrangement.
A fine Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Matron Agnes Midgeley, British Committee of the French Red Cross Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (A. Midgeley. B.R.C. & St. J.J.); France, Third Republic, Medaille de La Reconnaissance, bronze, unnamed, edge nicks to VM, very fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. Agnes Midgeley was born in Grimston, Yorkshire, on 20 February 1885, and took her nursing studies at the Anlaby Road Infirmary in Hull from January 1909 to January 1912. Volunteering for service with the British Committee of the French Red Cross at the outbreak of hostilities, she was soon posted as Sister to the Anglo-French Hospital at le Treport. This unit was founded and maintained by the Honourable Lady Murray and initially operated as a 65-bed hospital in a former golf hotel. It was later taken over by the British Red Cross in the summer of 1916 as a hospital for British Officers. It was at around this time that Midgeley’s health began to weaken. After four operations on a septic arm she was evacuated home to England aboard the Hospital Ship Brighton on 25 January 1917. Remaining on sick leave for nearly four months, she returned to her former hospital - now known as No.10 B.R.C.S. - as Matron. Awarded the A.R.R.C. and noted in her Red Cross Record as recommended for the French decoration, she was demobilised on 7 January 1919. Sold with the recipient’s copied Nursing Service Record and an extract from the Journal Officiel, dated 21 December 1919, which offers in the French language a citation to the French award: ‘Miss Midgley (sic) (Agnes) of British nationality, senior nurse in the hospitals of the British Red Cross and the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, diligent work in the important functions of a senior nurse in the service of the sick and injured French people, rendered with a dedication to every moment’; and copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace’s set of Insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Star, silver-gilt and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, with full neck riband, in fitted case of issue, this somewhat worn to edges, nearly extremely fine (2) £140-£180
A German Second World War DLV/NSFK Flyers Knife. A nice clean example of the DLV/NSFK flyers knife, the blade in overall good condition, it has not been abused, some original cross grain finish remaining. Maker marked with the unusual maker for this model of dagger Richard Plumacher & Sohn of Solingen. The thin blue leather washer still in place between the blade and the cross guard. Unusually the dagger does not have any DLV or NSFK markings to the scabbard throat. The leather to both the grip and scabbard excellent, with its original strap. A good patinated colour matching to the upper pommel, central cross guard and lower scabbard mount. All original screws for the scabbard fittings without the heads being turned. No indentations to the lower ball of the scabbard mount. The cross guard has taken two indentations through its life, the enamel in both swastikas front and rear generally good with some abrasions with its original leather strap and sprung loaded belt clip, overall good condition £600-£800 --- This is an age restricted lot: the successful buyer will be required to either collect in person, or arrange specialist shipping.
Second World War Lapel Badges. Three Swedish Third Reich sympathisers badges, circular red and blue for the SNFB label badge, maker marked on the reverse side, shield shaped swastika over ‘MV’ with lapel pin fixing. Blue enamel badge with three Swedish crowns lettering ‘SNU’ with lapel pin fixing, the pin has been re-fitted to the badge with solder, reasonable condition (3) £100-£140
A particularly fine Great War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Miss Ada Crosby, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who ‘transformed’ the Buekers Hotel in Finsbury Square into a fully functioning 100-bed Auxiliary Hospital The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1916, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Dame of Grace set of insignia, comprising shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, in case of issue; Star, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with three Additional Award Bars (Ada Crosby) good very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: ‘Superintendent, Domestic Staff, City of London Auxiliary Hospital, Finsbury Square.’ Ada Crosby was born in 1860, daughter of Sir Thomas Boor Crosby, M.D., L.L.D., F.R.C.S., a prominent London surgeon and Lord Mayor of the City of London from 1911 to 1912. A long standing member of the British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem, she was appointed Dame of Grace in the London Gazette of 4 March 1913 and was awarded the M.B.E. for her work at the City of London Auxiliary Hospital. A fine contemporary article published in The British Journal of Nursing, titled ‘Care of the Wounded’ and dated 4 September 1915, adds: ‘Miss Crosby, the Commandant, an ex-Lady Mayoress, is there, daily with Miss G. A. Rogers, and in their capable hands a transformation is going on, and a new landmark created at the junction of Finsbury Square and Christopher Street, where all who run may read that the City of London Red Cross Hospital henceforth dominates that pleasant corner.’ Raised Honorary Secretary to the B.R.C.S., Crosby also served as Vice President of Birkbeck College and sat for many years on the St. Pancras Borough Council. The recipient’s obituary published in The Times on 9 October 1948, further notes: ‘Her father was a widower when he was elected Lord Mayor and she filled the role of Lady Mayoress during his term of office with grace and distinction.’
A Great War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Driver Christabel Nicholson, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps, later Women’s Legion, who devoted the first two years of the Great War to the care of wounded and sick Belgian soldiers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (C. Nicholson. F.A.N.Y.C.); British War and Victory Medals (C. Nicholson. F.A.N.Y.C.); Belgium, Kingdom, Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, bronze and red enamel, good very fine (5) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Christabel Nicholson was born in Loughton, Essex, around 1895. Qualified in first aid and home nursing, she was amongst the earliest entrants to the F.A.N.Y., serving in France from 5 December 1914. Mentioned several times by author Pat Waddel in FANY went to War, Nicholson was one of the original party at Lamarck Military Hospital in Calais. Here she attended to hundreds of Belgian troops wounded at the Battle of the Yser, and yet more suffering from typhoid. Under the command of Mrs. McDougall, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry succeeded in creating a 100-bedded hospital which functioned through the ingenuity of the staff to raise money for the purchasing of dressings, beds and comforts. In March 1915, Zeppelin bombs fell into the yard of the hospital. With other staff looking after the patients, Nicholson and Miss Hutchinson went out with a motor ambulance to help at the Central Station. As Lamarck gradually evolved into a base hospital, Nicholson soon found herself driving every morning to the Clearing Station to assist in transporting the wounded who arrived from the front by train; the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Review (1914-17) held in the Women’s Work collection of the IWM, notes that on one occasion ‘there were 400 cases entrained at Calais, and Miss Nicholson and Miss Cluff, with Miss Marshall and Miss Hutchinson as Orderlies, drove their motor ambulances 125 miles to the destination of the train, unloaded their cases from midnight to early morning, and then motored back to rejoin their unit.’ Transferred to a new camp for Belgian convalescents known as the Camp du Ruchard, Nicholson spent the early summer of 1915 in ‘truly awful’ conditions with the men badly housed and surrounded by mud. She transferred to the Calais Convoy in 1916, becoming one of their first British drivers, before returning to England and joining the Women’s Legion in a supervisory capacity - likely the motorised transport department. Awarded the M.B.E. for her service with the Women’s Legion, she married Captain V. A. Haskett-Smith of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in 1921.
A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Major P. Doig, Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major P. Doig.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, complete with brooch bar, the first and last in their cases of issue, together with mounted group of five miniatures which includes a T.F.W.M., very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. M.I.D. London Gazette 14 December 1917. Peter Doig began his service with the Volunteer movement whilst he was serving as a law apprentice with Messrs Stewart and Bennett in Dunoon. He was Captain of the local company No. 4 Clyde R.G.A. In shooting he was considered one of the smartest and most accurate, and was admitted to be the best in Scotland. Due to the re-arrangement of military organisation the company was disbanded shortly before the War, but on mobilisation Captain Doig was called to the colours and given command of the artillery in Portkil. He was subsequently given command of at Stevenson and in 1916 was sent to France. For meritorious work he was promoted to Major in the field. Sold with four contemporary news cutting and copied Medal Index Card which records unsuccessful application for T.F.W.M.
A United States of America Silver Star and Purple Heart pair awarded to Master Sergeant John P. Pappas, 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, who displayed gallantry in action on 23 December 1950 in the vicinity of Sinbul-san, Korea United States of America, Silver Star, gilt with central silver star, machine-engraved ‘John P. Pappas’, slot brooch; Purple Heart, gilt and enamel, slot brooch, unnamed, in case of issue; together with a medical lapel badge, good very fine (2) £200-£240 --- John P. Pappas, United States Army, was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in connection with military operations against the enemy in Korea, while serving with the 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, on 23 December 1950. General Orders: Headquarters, 2d Infantry Division, General Orders No. 349 (1951) ‘Master Sergeant John P. Pappas, RA35999845, (then Sergeant), Army Medical Service, a member of Clearing Company, 2d Medical Battalion, 2d Infantry Division, displayed gallantry in action on 23 December 1950 in the vicinity of Sinbul-san, Korea. On that date Sergeant Pappas was attached to a unit of the Republic of Korea Army. The unit was assigned the mission of destroying an enemy guerrilla band disrupting the main supply route from Pusan northward. During the attack the commanding officer was killed, causing disorganization among the men. Sergeant Pappas with complete disregard for his own safety, exposed himself to intense enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire to reorganize the unit to lead the attack in a successful completion of the mission. Through intense enemy fire Sergeant Pappas moved about directing medical care and the evacuation of the wounded. The gallantry displayed by Sergeant Pappas reflects great credit upon himself and the military service.’ Pappas later served in Vietnam.
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem (6), Knight of Justice neck badge (2), both silver-gilt and enamel, one with heraldic beasts in angles, with neck riband; the other without heraldic beasts, and lacking suspension loop; Commander’s neck badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, with neck riband; Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Serving Member’s breast badge (2), silver, both with heraldic beasts in angles, generally very fine and better (6) £120-£160
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nurse Isobel M. Guthrie, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Tempy. Nurse I. M. Guthrie.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Nurse I. M. Guthrie.) very fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable service with the British Forces in Mesopotamia.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 7 February 1919. Isobel Muriel Guthrie was born on 20 August 1893 and initially served in Mesopotamia as a Temporary Nurse on a six-month contract with Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India. Awarded the A.R.R.C. and further mentioned by Lieutenant General W. R. Marshall for ‘gallant and distinguished services in the field’, Guthrie was later posted as Nursing Sister to Basrah in Iraq. Here she met and married Captain Harold S. Digges of the Wiltshire Regiment, the ceremony taking place on 10 March 1921. Sold with the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate and copied research which notes that she received her decoration in India in the latter half of 1924.
An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Mrs. Mary Stock, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sisters) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (M. Stock.); France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of War for Devouemont Epidemies, silver, reverse embossed ‘Mrs. M. Stocke 1915’; Society for Aid to the Military Wounded Cross 1914-19, silver, with original red cross riband and olive branch, good very fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- Mary Stock served as a Nurse with the British Committee of the French Red Cross during the Great War.
An extremely fine Great War R.R.C. and Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Principal Matron Dorothea M. Taylor, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, who was further recognised by His Majesty the King of Italy for her valuable work with the Italian Expeditionary Force Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, the reverse privately engraved ‘D. M. Taylor Jan 1916 Q.A.I.M.N.S.’, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves (A. Pr. Matron D. M. Taylor.); Italy, Kingdom, Bronze Medal della Salute Publica, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (4) £2,000-£2,400 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 14 January 1916. R.R.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 1 January 1921. Italy, Medal of Merit for Public Safety London Gazette 2 November 1920. Dorothea Matilda Taylor was born in Edinburgh on 29 November 1873, the daughter of physician William Taylor. Educated at St. George’s High School in Edinburgh, she crossed the Firth of Forth and River Tay to take her nursing training at Dundee Royal Infirmary from May 1900 to May 1903. Appointed Staff Nurse to the Q.A.I.M.N.S. on 10 July 1903, she was raised Sister on 18 November 1904 and sent to Egypt from April 1906 to October 1910. Sent to Khartoum on a tour of duty in 1907, she likely treated people suffering from malaria, yellow fever, and other infections associated with a lack of safe water. Returned to the United Kingdom, Taylor was promoted Acting Matron on 8 August 1914 and placed on home service. Awarded the Royal Red Cross, she received her decoration from the hand of the King at an investiture held in Buckingham Palace on 15 January 1916. Posted overseas to Italy on 8 December 1917, she later wrote a most emotive account of her experiences: ‘On a cold, bleak morning, early in December 1917, I and my party arrived at the Italian Frontier on our way to join the Italian Expeditionary Force. The ground was white with snow, and it was exceedingly cold. The railway station was guarded by Italian soldiers, and even at the door of the refreshment room there was a sentry with a fixed bayonet. We were informed by the Railway Transport Officer that food was very short in Italy, and that he did not know where we were to go, but he would send us on to Turin, where we arrived about 5 p.m. - No one seemed to know anything about us at Turin, so we were again sent on - this time to Genoa - and arrived there about midnight. Again, we were not expected, so we were taken to No. 11 General Hospital to be kindly received and housed until quarters could be found for us.’ Sent to a small hospital in Arquata and then on to Stationary Hospitals at Cremona and Bordighera, Taylor spent New Year’s Day of 1918 at Padova in a ‘dreary and cold hotel’, the night being spent in a cellar as the town received the attention of the enemy. Transferred to work at a Casualty Clearing Station in the foothills of the Austrian Alps, she took solace in the beauty of the landscape and hospitality of the Italian people, before being sent on to a hospital in Taranto and digs in newly constructed Nissen huts. It was at around this time that Taylor’s health began to suffer, likely in consequence of the volume of work and bombing by the armies and air forces of the Central Powers; the recipient’s Service Record notes her struggling with concussion, neuritis and headaches. Sent back to England at the cessation of hostilities, Taylor received the Second Award Bar to her Royal Red Cross at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 8 March 1921. Her hard work from 1917 to 1918 was further recognised by the King of Italy, Taylor receiving the rare award of the Bronze Medal della Salute Publica - usually conferred for service to Italian citizens in staving off disease and protecting societal health. Raised Matron on 31 January 1921, Taylor took further appointment at the Officer’s Hospital in Scarborough and the Military Hospital in Cosham, but with her health failing she was invalided on 15 December 1924 and placed on retired pay. She died of pneumonia on 11 October 1928, her last address noted as Swanston Cottage, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft. Sold with the recipient’s original silver Q.A.I.M.N.S. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1915.
A fine Great War R.R.C. group of five awarded to Matron Dora Westbrook, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff, later British Red Cross Society Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister D. Westbrook. I.Y. Hp. Staff); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister D. Westbrook.); Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with Second Award Bar (Dora King.); British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, bronze, with integral top riband bar, very fine and better (5) £600-£800 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917. Dora Westbrook trained in nursing at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. She joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 15 May 1900 and served during the Boer War as a Nursing Sister at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in Dreelfontein. According to The Yeomen of the Karoo, The Story of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Dreelfontein, this military hospital was created by the charitable efforts of Lady Georgina Curzon, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Beatrice Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster. Tasked initially with providing the highest quality medical care for the Imperial Yeomanry, the hospital was staffed by 706 medical professionals and offered 1960 beds to sick and injured soldiers. The Chairman’s report of 1902 notes that for its short period of existence, the hospital treated over 20,000 patients and developed a reputation as the best equipped, most sophisticated medical, surgical and convalescent hospital of the war, borne heavily of the untiring efforts of its aristocratic figureheads and their successful fundraising efforts. Westbrook later served during the Great War as Matron of Highfield Hall Hospital in Southampton, and was awarded the R.R.C. under her married name of Dora King. She received the decoration from the hand of the King at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 12 December 1917.
National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal, silver, unnamed, the edge impressed ‘356’, in case of issue; National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, silver, with 2 ‘Five Years’ clasps, and ‘Twenty Years’ top riband bar, unnamed, the edge impressed ‘2050’; together with a London Fire Brigade lapel badge, silvered and enamel; and a Belgian Civil Decoration, 3rd issue, Silver Cross, on riband for administrative long service, nearly extremely fine (4) £60-£80
A Great War R.R.C. group of five awarded to Matron Charlotte I. K. Sumner, British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, late Territorial Force Nursing Service, who helped to evacuate large numbers of sick and wounded from Antwerp in September 1914 Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914 Star (C. I. K. Sumner. B.R.C.S. & O.St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (C. I. K. Sumner.); Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration, Second Class, 1 clasp, 1914-1918, silver and enamel, edge bruise to BWM, otherwise good very fine (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 26 February 1917. Belgium Croix Civique Second Class London Gazette 3 October 1922: ‘For distinguished service rendered during the war of 1914-19.’ Charlotte Irene King Sumner was born in Cheetham, Lancashire, in 1875. Qualifying as a nurse at the Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1900 to 1905, she joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service and was appointed Matron in the London Gazette of 9 December 1910. She enjoyed a year nursing in France, at Tourlaville, Calais and Paris, before returning to England in 1912 and taking appointment as Matron of the Princess Christian Military Hospital in Englefield Green. Enjoying the balmy summer of 1914 in Belgium, it seems that Sumner soon found herself accidentally caught up in the machinations of the Schlieffen Plan; rather than catch the next ferry home to England, she chose instead to stay in Belgium and volunteered her services to the Brussels unit of the B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J. The story of her life at this time was later published in The Gentlewoman magazine on 10 March 1917: ‘One of the most remarkable instances of bravery on the part of our nurses is that displayed by Miss C. I. K. Sumner who was nursing in Antwerp in August and September 1914. She stayed on during the bombardment, only leaving the town when it was taken on October 9th. The detachment to which she belonged took with them as many wounded as could be moved, and made their escape to Holland, where for some time they had merely the barest necessities, and were working under great difficulties.’ Returning to France, Sumner spent further time as a Sister with the British Committee of the French Red Cross. She was later awarded the R.R.C. whilst serving as Matron at the Princess Christian Military Hospital in Englefield Green and was further decorated by His Majesty The King of the Belgians with the uncommon award of the Belgian Croix Civique. Transferring to Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, Sumner continued to care for others for many years before retiring to Poole in the late 1930s. She died in 1949.
An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Mrs. J. A. Crewe, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (J. A. Crewe. B.R.C.S.); Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with two Additional Award Bars (Mrs. Jessie A. Crewe) mounted as worn, very fine (6) £140-£180
An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Leading Sick Berth Attendant A. E. Lewis, Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve and St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, with Second Award Bar (X4948 A. E. Lewis. L.S.B.A. R.N.A.S.B.R.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, silver, with four Additional Award Bars (14826. Cpl. A. E. Lewis. Bedminster Div. No.2 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1936.) very fine (5) £120-£160
An Order of St. John Serving Brother group of seven awarded to Senior Reserve Attendant J. Titterington, Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve and Colne Division, St John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s, breast badge, silver and enamel; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (1232. Pte. J. Titterington, Colne Div.); British War and Victory Medals (M.8742 J. Titterington. S.R.A. R.N.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Pte. J. Titterington.); Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue, with additional service clasp (127. J. Titterington. S.B.S. 2Cl. R.N.A.S.B.R.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, with additional service clasp (Pte. J. Titterington. (Morecambe Div. No. 4 Dst. SJAB. 1917) light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (7) £400-£500 --- R.N.A.S.B.R. L.S. & G.C. awarded 14 October 1920; clasp issued 30 May 1925. Also entitled to Q.S.A. with clasp for Cape Colony.
A post-War A.R.R.C., B.E.M. group of five awarded to Head Naval Nursing Auxiliary Jean M. A. Workman, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1957’; British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (Miss Jean M. A. Workman. A.R.R.C., Q.A.R.N.N.S.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (0019 J. M. A. Workman. H.N.N.A. H.M.S. Collingwood.) good very fine (5) £340-£400 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 13 June 1957. B.E.M. London Gazette 2 June 1962. Jean Margaret Allan Workman was born in Kensington in 1902, the daughter of Irish shipbroker Robert A. Workman. Raised by a governess and surrounded by servants at a property in St. John’s Wood, she moved to Hayling Island in the 1930’ and took employment with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service in Portsmouth. Awarded the A.R.R.C. as Head Voluntary Aid Detachment Nursing Member (Naval Hospitals), she was further recognised with the award of the British Empire Medal in 1962. Retired to 63 St. Thomas’s Avenue, Hayling Island, she died on 14 August 1977.
An Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Acting Sergeant C. G. Merritt, St. John Ambulance Association, late 22nd (County of London) Battalion (The Queen’s), London Regiment The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel, heraldic beasts in angles; British War and Victory Medals (4822 A.Sjt. C. G. Merritt. 22-Lond.R.); Defence Medal; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 7 years top brooch bar, bronze, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1926.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 14 years top brooch bar, silver, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1933.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, 9ct. gold, with 21 years top brooch bar and 40 years additional award bar, the medal reverse inscribed ‘Carl Merritt 1940’ and the bar ‘1959’, minor contact marks to BWM and VM, otherwise good very fine (7) £200-£240 --- Carl George Merritt was born in Wimbledon on 28 October 1896 and served in France with the London Regiment during the Great War. He later devoted over 40 years of his life to the Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association, being recorded as Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the London Gazette of 7 January 1955. Retired to Dorset, he died in Poole in 1985.
German Second World War Lapel Badges. An interesting collection of scarce lapel badges including International Hunting Exhibition, Berlin 1937, beautiful undamaged enamels with pin back suspension. National Socialist Women’s League, individually numbered badge ‘L7816’. Very impressive large size 50mm Weimar Republic Honour Cross for service to the State and homeland with pin back suspension. DAF lapel pin, swastika within a cogwheel. Single swastika on lapel pin being Danish Sympathisers. RLB 1st pattern lapel badge with blue enamel lettering, enamel thin. Two identical in form but different in size Hungarian Supporters of the German National Socialists. A third Hungarian Arrow Cross lapel pin. German M.29 eagle and swastika style lapel pin, maker marked on the reverse side, generally good condition (10) £240-£280
Four: Sister Edith M. Salisbury, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem British War and Victory Medals (E. M. Salisbury. B.R.C.S. & St. J.J.); Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration, First Class, 1 clasp, 1914-1915, enamel chipped and reverse centre damaged; Queen Elizabeth Medal, bronze, with red cross suspension, generally very fine and better (4) £140-£180 --- Edith Mary Salisbury was born in 1889 and lived at Cambray House, Llandovery, South Wales. A trained nurse, she served during the Great War as a Nursing Sister at Boulogne and with No. 2 A.B. at Calais. Sold with the recipient’s British Red Cross Order of St John brass pin badge and General Nursing Council for England and Wales badge, silver and enamel, by Thomas Fattorini, engraved to reverse ‘E. M. Davies. S.R.N. 25033 16.11.23.’
An extremely rare Great War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Lady Superintendent Ellen D. Harris, Indian Army Nursing Service, later Voluntary Aid Detachment, who served alongside a small and hand-picked band of nursing staff during the Black Mountain Expedition Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (Sister E. D. Harris Indian Nursing Service) extremely fine (2) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Brigadier H. Bullock Collection, 1956; Tilling Collection. A.R.R.C. London Gazette 6 August 1919: ‘Miss Ellen Harris, Matron, Blytheswood Auxiliary Hospital, West Byfleet.’ Ellen Dovede Harris trained as a nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London from 1885 to 1888. Registered with the Royal British Nurses Association on 2 May 1890, she was selected by Lady Superintendent Loch from the Staff of St. Bartholomew’s and appointed to the Indian Army Nursing Service as one of the original complement of two Lady Superintendents and twelve Nursing Sisters on 21 February 1888. The following day she sailed for India aboard the Malabar. Arriving in April 1888, Harris and four colleagues were posted to Rawalpindi under Lady Superintendent Loch. Here she served as part of the Black Mountain Expedition, receiving the India General Service Medal with clasp. Tasked with attacking the Pathan tribes of Hassanzais and Akezais, the Expedition represented one of the first major campaigns on the North-West Frontier of India. Advancing into unknown and perilous territory, British casualties soon mounted up, especially following the action at Shingri and further engagements at Towara and Kotkai, the British resorting to burning villages in order to achieve capitulation by the tribal elders. Promoted Deputy Lady Superintendent on 1 October 1891, Harris completed her first term of engagement at Peshawar and returned home in 1893. On 19 December 1894, she offered her resignation with six months’ notice in order to take up the position of Superintendent of Lady Robert’s Nurses. These ladies had charge of the Officer’s Hospital at Muree, giving their services to the Station Hospital at Sialkot in the winter. Remaining in India, Harris is later recorded in 1906 as Lady Superintendent at the English Home, M.A.O. College, Aligarh, a post which she held until the commencement of the Great War. Recalled to England, she ended her impressive nursing career in Surrey at the 45-bed Blythswood Auxiliary Hospital, staffed by local members of the V.A.D.
Three: Attributed to Major Agnes F. Brown, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps and Territorial Army Nursing Service Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1960, with Second Award Bar dated 1960, with integral top riband bar, good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Agnes Frances Brown took her nursing studies at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton from 1930 to 1933, registering as SRN No. 70388 on 24 November 1933. She joined the Territorial Army Nursing Service in 1934 and was called up for service at the outbreak of the Second World War. Appointed Sister on 31 May 1941, she served with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (T.A.) throughout the War and was advanced Major on 25 December 1953. Sold with the recipient’s General Nursing Council for England and Wales badge, silver and enamel, engraved to reverse ‘A. F. Brown. S.R.N. 70388 24-11-33.’; A Royal Sussex County Hospital badge, enamel and base metal, reverse engraved ‘A. F. Brown 70388’, this with significant enamel damage and lacking catch for affixing wearing pin.
A Great War ‘Balkans theatre’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Mary M. L. Johns, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard & Co. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Sister M. M. L. Johns.); France, Third Republic, Medaille des Epidemies en argent (M. L. Johns 1919) the case to first a little worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919. France, Medaille des Epidemies London Gazette 21 July 1919. The French award was initially graded as ‘en vermeil’. The correction appears in the London Gazette of 4 September 1919. Mary Maud Lilian Johns was born in Chester on 17 January 1881, the daughter of a tea and provision merchant. Educated at the Ladies School, Rhyl, she trained as a nurse at the Borough Fever Hospital in Ipswich from 1908 to 1910. She then transferred to the Bethnal Green Infirmary from 1910 to 1913, before engaging in private nursing. Accepted for service with the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 30 December 1915, Johns was mobilised on 10 January 1916 and sent to Salonika with No. 49 General Hospital on 20 April 1917. Here she would have been heavily engaged in helping wounded men and those suffering from malaria and other diseases. Transferred to No. 82 General Hospital in Constantinople, she served as part of the Army of the Black Sea from 24 July 1920 to 13 January 1921. Returned home to England, Johns transferred to District Nursing and was selected for the permanent reserve; she was removed in 1934 having failed to report. Sold with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1915.
An Inter-War R.R.C. group of five awarded to Lady Superintendent Ethel Green, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (Sister E. Green. Q.A.M.N.S.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister E. Green.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; together with the recipient’s Charing Cross Hospital Medal, bronze, unnamed, good very fine (6) £700-£900 --- Provenance: Christie’s, July 1984. R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1936. M.I.D. London Gazettes 15 August 1918 and 2 November 1918. Ethel Green was born in Cheltenham on 15 May 1883. Educated at Manchester High School and Cricklewood Ladies College, she trained for her nursing certificate at Charing Cross Hospital in London from 1 September 1905 to 12 October 1909. She applied to join the Q.A.M.N.S.I. on 27 February 1911 and was soon accepted pending a vacancy; taking temporary appointment in Birmingham, she finally sailed for India aboard the City of Marseilles on 15 February 1913. Initially serving as Nursing Sister at Poona and Peshawar, Green was transferred to Mesopotamia in 1916. Here she was twice Mentioned in Despatches, being further notified of the award of the A.R.R.C. in the London Gazette of 25 February 1918. This was later forwarded to the Sister’s Quarters of British Stationary Hospital, Poona, on 3 January 1922. Promoted Lady Superintendent on 18 June 1932, Green witnessed her final posting at the hill station of Dalhousie, a summer retreat of the Earl of Dalhousie, who was once British Governor-General in India. Confirmed as entitled to the Silver Jubilee Medal, she retired from the service on 31 August 1935 and was awarded the R.R.C. soon thereafter. It was also at around this time that she applied for her BWM and VM, thus accounting for the error in rank where ‘Sister’ is substituted for the correct ‘Nursing Sister’.
A post-War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Colonel Mary J. Clune, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver and enamel, reverse dated 1979; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Capt. M. J. Clune. QARANC.); Ghana, Republic Day Medal; together with the recipient’s Q.A.R.A.N.C. Cape Badge, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1950, good very fine and better (4) £240-£280 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 16 June 1979. Mary Josephine Clune was born in the Scariff district of County Galway on 20 January 1934. Trained in Ireland, she was granted a short service commission in the Q.A.R.A.N.C. on 5 February 1958, and was raised Captain on 1 April 1962 whilst employed with the Army of Ghana. Transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 5 February 1963, she spent two years serving with the Far East Land Forces at Terendak Hospital in Malaysia, before being appointed Major on 13 September 1968. Transferred to Singapore from 1970 to 1972, and Berlin and Nepal from 1975 to 1978, Clune was appointed Matron of the British Military Hospital in Munster in July 1980 and was raised Lieutenant Colonel on 31 October 1983. Posted to Rinteln in November 1984, she ended her career at Catterick in the rank of Colonel, retiring to pension on 2 April 1988. Sold with copied research which confirms entitlement to the Ghana Republic Day Medal of 1 July 1960 under A.C.I. 241 of 1961, with restrictive permission for wear.
A rare ‘Boxer Rebellion’ R.R.C. Pair awarded to Nursing Sister Marion J. Hislop, Indian Army Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; China 1900, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. J. Mislop [sic]. I.A.N.S.) good very fine (2) £1,400-£1,800 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 13 December 1901: ‘In recognition of their services to the sick and wounded during the operations in China.’ Marion Jeanette Hislop was appointed Probationer at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London from November 1884 to November 1887, and took her first appointment as Sister at the Great Ormond Street Hospital For Sick Children from June 1889 to October 1890. Appointed to the Indian Army Nursing Service in October 1891, she served as Deputy Superintendent at the Sister’s Quarters of the Station Hospital in Allahabad, subsequently boarding the transport Palamcolla and sailing for Hong Kong for service during the Boxer Rebellion. The Nursing Record and Hospital World offers a little more information regarding this period: ‘Five of the Sisters of the Indian Army Nursing Service are at present serving in China. They are Senior Nursing Sister Marion Jeanette Hislop, and Sisters Agnes Mary Waterhouse, Louisa E. Lingard, Clara Lucy Cusins, and Christian Frances Hill. Their service are, no doubt, much appreciated by our sick soldiers. We hear very little of the nursing arrangements made for the care of our sick and wounded in China, and the news that five experienced Sisters of the Indian Army Nursing Staff are on duty there, is welcome, even though their services may be but as a drop in the ocean.’
A Great War ‘Salonika’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Isabella Thomson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (Sister I. Thomson.); Greece, Kingdom, Medal for Military Merit, Fourth Class, bronze, generally good very fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘For service in Salonika.’ Greek Medal for Military Merit, 4th Class, London Gazette 26 November 1919. Isabella Thomson was born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, on 5 December 1881, the daughter of a retired Ship’s Master. She took her nursing studies at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary from 1907 to 1910, and applied to join Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in May 1915. Posted as Nurse to Malta from 25 June 1915 to April 1917, and the 43rd General Hospital at Salonika from April 1917 to October 1918, she was released from service in 1919 in consequence of failing health; her Service Record notes in particular the strain associated with her work in Salonika.
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, a late Georgian K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s breast star, by Metcalf, 124 Regent Street, London, 80mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, with polished steel retaining pin, the reverse central plate engraved ‘Metcalf (by Appointment) 124 Regent St.’, with the lid from the original case of issue, the inside silk with manufacturer's sticker ‘Metcalf, 124 Regent Street & 8 Pall Mall, Engraver & Jeweller’, some small blemishes to central enamel, otherwise nearly extremely fine and unrecorded by this manufacturer £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
A Knight Bachelor’s group of four awarded to Air Mechanic First Class Sir John L. Blake, Royal Naval Air Service, later Comptroller General of HM Patent Office, who received the accolade of knighthood from H.M. Queen Elizabeth II on 27 February 1952 in the very first investiture carried out by the new Queen at the start of her reign Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1951, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (F.13174 J. L. Blake. A.M.1 R.N.A.S.) in named card box of issue; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue, extremely fine (4) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Knight Bachelor London Gazette 1 January 1952: John Lucian Blake, M.SC., Esq., Comptroller-General, Patent Office. Sir John Lucian Blake was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 28 January 1898 and was educated at Watford Grammar School. He served with the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War in H.M.S. President II from 18 April 1916, and following the cessation of hostilities joined HM Patent Officer. He served with the Patents Office for thirty years, and was latterly Comptroller General, for which services he was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1952 New Year’s Honours’ List. He was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 27 February 1952, in what was the very first investiture held by the new Queen at the start of her reign, and died suddenly in Paris on 18 May 1954, aged 56. Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient; a UNESCO Paris 1951 lapel badge; various souvenir menus from formal luncheons and dinners in the 1950s, including one for a luncheon in honour of the touring Pakistan Cricket Team in 1954; a boxed set of two packs of playing cards with the initials ‘JLB’ on the backs; a sterling silver presentation penknife, the case bearing the recipient’s engraved initials, and the heraldic crest of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, in leather case; and copied research.
An inter-War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister Leonora C. Hooper, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service, who was heavily engaged in treating wounded servicemen on the First Day of the Gallipoli landings Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (Nursing Sister, L. C. Hooper, Q.A.R.N.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (N. Sister L. C. Hooper Q.A.R.N.N.S.) very fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1930. Leonora Chamberlain Hooper was born in Carisbrooke, Hampshire, on 24 August 1884. She trained for her nursing certificate at Northampton General Hospital from 1906 to 1909, and entered Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service as a Probationary Nursing Sister at Haslar on 4 September 1912. Transferred to Plymouth on 1 November 1913, she served aboard the Hospital Ship Soudan from 17 August 1914 to 4 September 1915. A converted transport vessel, Soudan played an important role in the Gallipoli Campaign, much of it documented by the S.M.O., Dr. G. Trevor Collingwood, M.V.O., in his publication Notes on the Work of a Naval Hospital Ship at the Dardanelles: ‘The first operations consisted in the destruction and demolition of the forts at the entrance, and between February 25 and March 19, 1915, 137 Naval casualties were received, after which there was a lull, only four wounded being sent on board. The next operations consisted in the landing of the Army supported by the Navy, under a very heavy fire from both sides of the Straits. From April 25 to May 1, 429 wounded were received, 352 Military and 30 Naval Ratings being admitted on the first day. After this, the Army having established a footing ashore, the “Soudan” withdrew to a safer anchorage.’ Returned to Plymouth, Hooper spent a further period of service aboard the Hospital Ship Berbice from 28 February 1917 to 3 March 1918, spending the final months of the Great War back at Haslar. She subsequently registered with the General Nursing Council as SRN No. 9564 on 27 October 1922 and was employed on an overseas tour to Malta in the early 1920s. Transferred to R.N. Sick Quarters at Ganges on 15 February 1928, she was awarded the A.R.R.C. and retired to pension on 15 July 1934. Taking employment as a lady’s companion, she is later recorded in 1939 as a resident of the Isle of Wight and serving as an A.R.P. warden.
A selection of Great War period Women’s Legion, Auxiliary Territorial Service and Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps cap badges, shoulder titles and pin badges, some missing reverse lugs; together with two card identity discs to V.A.D. Nurse Mabel Vere Lee and one to Q.A.I.M.N.S. Sister Doris Eleanor May Amies; an Ellesmere Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem badge, silver and enamel; an Order of St John Priory for Wales Service Badge, engraved to reverse ‘Muriel Williams WA 19001’; various life saving proficiency medals and miniature Service Medals of the Order of St. John; an R.N.L.I. pennant flag; a nurses cape; miscellaneous badges, buttons, and fabric shoulder pips; various photographs and newspaper cuttings; and other ephemera, generally good condition (lot) £50-£70
A fine ‘North-West Frontier’ C.S.I, ‘1903 Durbar’ C.I.E. and ‘Afghanistan 1919’ C.B.E. group of seven awarded to Deputy Inspector General Douglas Donald, Indian Police The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, C.S.I., Companion’s neck badge, gold and enamel, with central cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, the motto of the Order set in rose diamonds, suspended from a five-pointed silver star and gold ring suspension, complete with neck cravat, in Garrard, London, case of issue; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels, with length of neck ribbon; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E., Commander’s 1st type, neck badge with 2nd type neck cravat; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Mr. D. Donald) naming officially engraved in running script; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Mr. D. Donald, Comdt. Border Mily. Police) naming officially engraved in running script with correction to ‘Police’; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Asst-Comnr. D. Donald Civil Deptt.) officially impressed naming; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, the last four mounted as worn, toned, light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (7) £4,000-£6,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- C.S.I. London Gazette 1 January 1921: ‘Douglas Donald, Esq., C.I.E., on special duty as Political Officer for Orakzais, North-West Frontier Province.’ C.I.E. London Gazette 30 December 1903: ‘On the occasion of the Durbar to be held this day at Delhi in His Majesty’s Indian Empire, in commemoration of His Majesty’s Coronation:- Douglas Donald, Esq., Commandant of the Border Military Police and Samana Rifles, Kohat.’ C.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 5 April 1921: ‘For services during the Operations against Afghanistan:- Douglas Donald, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Political Officer and Assistant Commissioner, Hangu and Samana.’ Brought to Notice Gazette of India 29 July 1919: ‘Rendered valuable services in India in connection with the War.’ Douglas Donald was born on 19 November 1865, at Hashiapore, Punjab, the son of A. J. S. Donald, of the Punjab Provincial Civil Service, and was educated at the Bishop Cotton School, Simla. He joined the Punjab Police Force at Amballa, Punjab in 1888 and in 1894 was appointed Political Assistant of the Border Military Police. In 1899 he was appointed Commandant of the Border Military Police and Samana Rifles. He was appointed Superintendent of Police in 1906 and by 1914 he was Deputy Inspector General of Police. Donald gained valuable experience and understanding of the Pathan tribesmen during the tumultuous period of the 1890s which culminated in the Tirah Campaign. Thus, when times became calmer and as Commandant of the Border Military Police and the Samana Rifles, he was able to give long and notable service to the Indian Government by re-establishing and maintaining peaceful relations with many sections of the powerful Orakzai clan. He understood the Pathan nature which he used instinctively; he knew of their tribal feuds, their fierce vendettas, and he also knew the tribal language and lore as well as the tribesmen themselves. With these attributes he was able to succeed in maintaining a form of order because the tribesman and Government alike had confidence that Douglas Donald would do his best for them. In the Samana Campaign of 1891 Donald was Political Officer on the Staff of Brigadier General Sir W. S. A. Lockhart, K.C.B., C.S.I., Commanding. He was mentioned in dispatches by Lockhart. In the London Gazette of 15 September 1891, the published account from Lockhart states as part of item 25, 'Messrs Spencer and Donald have also assisted Major Leigh, and have in all respects upheld the good opinion I formed of them during the operations at the beginning of the present year.' Donald was mentioned in dispatches again for the later Samana Campaign in 1897. In the London Gazette of 11 February 1898, Major-General A. G. Yeatman-Biggs, C.B., Commanding the Kurrum-Kohat Force stated, 'The Commandant of the Border Militia Police, Mr D. Donald, informed me that a large number of the enemy were making for the Darband Kotal, and the officer commanding the 1-2nd Gurkhas reported to me (7p.m.) that seven standards and a considerable number were retracing their steps up the valley.' He was also mentioned in the same Gazette entry, 'The guns from Hangu were accompanied by Mr. D. Donald, who knows the country well, and he was able to show them a position from which they could fire a few rounds to encourage the garrison, and Major Middleton, commanding the 3rd Bengal Cavalry, sent through by helio., just before sunset, a message to assure the garrison that they would be relieved by mid-day on the 14th.' Donald received a third mention as follows, 'On the 3rd September a bhisti from Dhar was murdered by the enemy, and his three mules stolen. Mr D. Donald, Commandant of the Border Police, proceeded to Dhar to make inquiries into the circumstances, and he and his escort were fired on.' Douglas Donald retired in 1922 and died on 21 October 1953, aged 88. In his Obituary in the Times, Lord Rugby wrote:- ‘All of us who knew him, his eager sportsmanship, his bubbling good humour, and who saw how he could bring good out of evil are sure that there is a niche for him in the Frontier museum of fame.’ Sold with copied research including a transcript of his record of service and copied pages from The Life of General Dyer, by Ian Colvin, 1929, in which Donald is mentioned several times.
An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Acting Sister Philadelphia L. F. Pattenden, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, in fitted case of issue; War Medal 1939-45; Service Medal of the Order of St. John, silver, with one Additional Award Bar (17826 A/Sis. P. L. F. Pattenden. Temple Nsg. Div. No.1 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1938.); London and North Eastern Railway S.J.A.B. 15 Years First Aid Efficiency Medal with 20 Years clasp, 9ct gold, on lady’s bow riband (P. Pattenden) nearly extremely fine (4) £160-£200 --- Philadelphia L. F. Pattenden was born in Grays, Essex, in 1898, and was appointed Serving Sister of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1931.
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Matron K. M. Hawkins, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, late Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service and Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914-15 Star (S. Nurse K. M. Hawkins. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sister K. M. Hawkins.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 31 July 1919. M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1918. Keziah Millicent Hawkins served with the Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve in France and Flanders from 9 December 1914 to 9 November 1915. Transferred to Egypt and then Macedonia from 1 February 1916 to 9 May 1918, she returned to England and served as Sister at the Military Hospital in Shorncliffe. Mentioned in Despatches, she later received the A.R.R.C. at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 3 December 1919. Appointed post-War to the permanent establishment of the Military Families and Military Isolation Hospitals as Staff Nurse, she soon became Sister in Charge upon the reorganisation of the service, her new rank confirmed in Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service on 20 March 1924. Posted variously to Palestine, Egypt and Devonport, her unit was absorbed into the Q.A.I.M.N.S. in 1926. Hawkins went on to serve in Shanghai from 1927 to 1929 and at Delhi and Jubblepore from 1936 to 1940. She retired from the service soon thereafter, although the Indian Army List notes her re-employed until at least 1942.
A Second War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Principal Matron Sheila H. McDowall, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, who was decorated for her work at No. 63 General Hospital in Tobruk Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1942’, on lady’s bow riband; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Sister. S. H. McDowall. Q.A.I.M.N.S.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, nearly extremely fine (6) £700-£900 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 9 September 1942. The original recommendation by the Officer Commanding states: ‘This lady has worked at this hospital for a year. During this period she has always held posts of great responsibility and she deserves the highest credit for her powers of organisation, her nursing ability and her tact. She has fired her juniors with equal enthusiasm for their work. Her own work here is worthy of high reward.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 30 June 1942. Sheila Helen McDowall was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, on 4 October 1909. She trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London from 1931 to 1934, being registered SRN No. 72871 on 22 June 1934. Appointed Staff Nurse on probation in the Q.A.I.M.N.S. on 1 May 1937, she was sent to Millbank in London and on to Cambridge Military Hospital at Aldershot in December 1937. Posted overseas to Palestine in November 1938, she was raised Sister and went on to render extensive service at No. 63 General Hospital in Cairo from November 1940. Transferred to Tobruk in April 1942, she was later Mentioned in Despatches and decorated with the A.R.R.C. Returned to England, McDowall received her award at an investiture held by the King at Buckingham Palace in November 1943. She subsequently nursed at hospitals in York and Catterick, before being sent to Accra in West Africa as Principal Matron. Following post-War duties in Johannesburg and Ceylon, McDowall returned home and retired from the service on 6 March 1948. She married Cecil R. Mullins in Winchester in 1956 and died there in March 2001 at the age of 91. Sold with copied research.
An Order of St. John pair awarded to K. D. Wadia, St. John Ambulance Brigade (India) The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, in case of issue; India, Dominion, Order of St John Ambulance Brigade, Seva Medal, type with portrait of Gandhi, the reverse engraved ‘448 K. D. Wadia III Distt. St. J.A.B. 1956’, bronze, very fine (2) £70-£90
A fine post-War R.R.C. group of five awarded to Temporary Principal Matron Ileene Minas, Indian Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated ‘1947’, on lady’s bow riband and housed in a Garrard & Co. case; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Matron I. Minas, I.M.N.S.); War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, very fine and better (5) £600-£800 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1947: ‘A lady who has Thirty Years valuable and meritorious service to her credit, ten years of which was spent in Frontier Posts. Unusually capable - She has never spared herself in any way. She is a credit and an asset to the Indian Military Nursing Service.’ Ileene Minas was born in 1896 and served with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in India from 4 November 1915. Appointed to temporary service, she continued to nurse after the cessation of hostilities but was not permitted to transfer to the regular branch, despite promotion to Matron on 7 October 1925. Transferring to the Indian Military Nursing Service in 1926, Minas served the next eight years at Bannu on the North-West Frontier. Located on the Kurram River in the southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the city provided an important hub for the trade in livestock, wool, cotton, tobacco and grain. It also offered refuge for wounded and sick British and Indian troops during the Alfridi Redshirt Rebellion of 1930-31, Minas later being awarded the IGS Medal for nursing these men. Transferred briefly to Rawalpindi, followed by Quetta in 1935 and Poona in 1938, Minas is recorded in 1946 as Senior Matron, second only to the Chief Principal Matron of India. Award the R.R.C. in the Principal role, she retired at Indian Independence in August 1947. Sold with the recipient’s original I.M.N.S. cape badge and copied research noting Minas as one of only two members of the service to receive the 1937 Coronation Medal.
A Second War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Nursing Member Beatrice J. Hayward, British Red Cross Society, who was ‘indefatigable’ in her attention to the wounded following an air raid on Gosport, and was later the recipient of a Commander in Chief’s Commendation for a similar event Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1945’, on lady’s bow riband; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (3) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘R.N.H. Haslar. She showed outstanding zeal after an air raid, and was indefatigable in her attention to the injured and in reassuring women personnel in damaged quarters.’ Commander-in-Chief’s Commendation 28 May 1944: ‘For good services after an air raid.’ Beatrice Jane ‘Janie’ Hayward (née Eley) was born in Market Drayton, Shropshire, on 25 January 1920. She married William Thomas Hayward at Gripping in Suffolk in late 1939, but the marriage proved a brief one with the loss of her husband on 5 June 1941 in consequence of the torpedoing of the troop transport Anselm by U-96. Enrolling as a Nursing Member in the British Red Cross, Hayward served with the Sussex V.A.D. at Horsham, before being posted to Haslar on 10 March 1944. Billeted at the W.R.N.S. Quarters on St. Michael’s Road, Portsmouth, she was promoted Nursing Member Grade 1 on 10 June 1944 and awarded the A.R.R.C. six months later. Sold with a fine archive of original documentation, including: letter of notification regarding A.R.R.C. award from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated 4 January 1945; letter of notification from the British Red Cross, dated 1 January 1945, noting her ‘outstanding zeal, patience, and cheerfulness, and for courage and whole-hearted devotion to duty while serving in H.M. Naval Hospitals.’; letter of congratulations from the Chairman of the V.A.D. Standing Committee, dated 2 January 1945; notification slip regarding investiture of A.R.R.C. at Buckingham Palace on 3 July 1945; British Red Cross Society letter of congratulations regarding the award of the Distinguished War Service Certificate, dated 7 March 1945, and corresponding note of congratulations from the Commodore and Officers of the R.N. Barracks, Portsmouth; together with a fine assortment of personal correspondence, including a letter from the B.B.C. inviting Hayward to appear on the programme ‘What’s My Line?’ as a Stock Car Racing Driver - something at which she appears to have excelled.
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Sister Florence C. Puddicombe, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve, later Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister F. Puddicombe.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister F. Puddicombe.); 1914 Star (Miss F. C. Puddicombe. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister F. C. Puddicombe.) very fine and better (6) £600-£800 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. Florence Catherine Puddicombe was born in St. Aubin, Jersey, on 10 December 1867, and qualified as a nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1894. A founding member of the League of Nurses at St. Bartholomew’s, she joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve on 28 March 1900 and served as a Nursing Sister during the Boer War. The roll for the QSA Medal later notes her with the Army Nursing Service Reserve at No. 5 General Hospital in Cape Town. A former Base Hospital, this General Hospital offered 940 beds to sick and wounded servicemen making it one of the largest in operation. Returned home to England, Puddicombe is noted in 1911 as a sick nurse at Felsted School. She later joined the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 1 January 1914, her MIC noting service in France from 12 August 1914 at No. 2 General Hospital. Transferred to No. 14 Stationary Hospital, she received the A.R.R.C. from the hand of the King at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 11 December 1919. Released from service at around this time, the recipient’s Nursing Service Record notes her forwarding address as ‘St. Stephen’s Vicarage, Launceston, Cornwall.’ Sold with a Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1915.
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