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A Great War 'Western Front' R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Miss Isabel G. Eveleigh,...
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A Great War ‘Western Front’ R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Miss Isabel G. Eveleigh, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Sister I. G. Eveleigh T.F.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister I. G. Eveleigh) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards (the Star a 1914 Star); a British Royal Red Cross Society Honorary Life Member’s badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse number ‘71’; and a miniature Territorial Force Nursing Service Tippet cape Badge, generally good very fine (4) £500-£700 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘In recognition of valuable services with the Armies in France and Flanders.’ Miss Isabel Georgina Eveleigh was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, on 10 August 1877, where her father was the Station Manager, and trained at King’s College Hospital, London, being subsequently employed as a Nurse at Paddington Infirmary. She joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service in 1911 as an original member of the 2nd London General Hospital, Chelsea. She served during the Great War initially in the Hospital Ship Aquitania from July 1915, before proceeding to the Western Front in March 1916. She served successively at 14 General Hospital, Wimereaux; No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station, Varennes; 83 General Hospital, Boulogne; 72 General Hospital, Trouville; and 8 General Hospital, Rouen. Miss Eveleigh was recommended for the R.R.C. for her services at 83 General Hospital, Rouen, where she served as a Sister and Night Superintendent from 27 June 1917 to 8 April 1918, and would have received great numbers of casualties resulting from the Battle of Messines and Third Ypres. She was demobilised on 3 July 1919, and was presented with her decoration by H.M. The King at Buckingham Palace on 17 December 1919. She died in Horncastle on 17 January 1966. Sold with copied research.
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A Great War ‘Western Front’ R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Miss Isabel G. Eveleigh, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Sister I. G. Eveleigh T.F.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister I. G. Eveleigh) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards (the Star a 1914 Star); a British Royal Red Cross Society Honorary Life Member’s badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse number ‘71’; and a miniature Territorial Force Nursing Service Tippet cape Badge, generally good very fine (4) £500-£700 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘In recognition of valuable services with the Armies in France and Flanders.’ Miss Isabel Georgina Eveleigh was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, on 10 August 1877, where her father was the Station Manager, and trained at King’s College Hospital, London, being subsequently employed as a Nurse at Paddington Infirmary. She joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service in 1911 as an original member of the 2nd London General Hospital, Chelsea. She served during the Great War initially in the Hospital Ship Aquitania from July 1915, before proceeding to the Western Front in March 1916. She served successively at 14 General Hospital, Wimereaux; No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station, Varennes; 83 General Hospital, Boulogne; 72 General Hospital, Trouville; and 8 General Hospital, Rouen. Miss Eveleigh was recommended for the R.R.C. for her services at 83 General Hospital, Rouen, where she served as a Sister and Night Superintendent from 27 June 1917 to 8 April 1918, and would have received great numbers of casualties resulting from the Battle of Messines and Third Ypres. She was demobilised on 3 July 1919, and was presented with her decoration by H.M. The King at Buckingham Palace on 17 December 1919. She died in Horncastle on 17 January 1966. Sold with copied research.
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