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A Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Sister G. L. Hanley (née Shelley), Queen...
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Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley); British War and Victory Medals (Sister G. L. Hanley) rank officially corrected on BWM, VM officially re-impressed, mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, generally very fine or better (6) £800-£1,000
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2014.
A.R.R.C. London Gazette 31 July 1919.
Grace Lilian Hanley (née Shelley) was embarked for South Africa as a Nursing Sister in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve in June 1900, and served there until November 1902 (Queen’s and King’s Medals). Subsequently appointed a Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Staff Reserve in October 1914, she went out to France in June 1916 and was employed at No. 14 General Hospital until the year’s end, when she returned to an appointment at the Military Hospital, Oswestry. She was still serving in the latter capacity at the time of her demobilisation in September 1919.
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Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley); British War and Victory Medals (Sister G. L. Hanley) rank officially corrected on BWM, VM officially re-impressed, mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, generally very fine or better (6) £800-£1,000
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2014.
A.R.R.C. London Gazette 31 July 1919.
Grace Lilian Hanley (née Shelley) was embarked for South Africa as a Nursing Sister in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve in June 1900, and served there until November 1902 (Queen’s and King’s Medals). Subsequently appointed a Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Staff Reserve in October 1914, she went out to France in June 1916 and was employed at No. 14 General Hospital until the year’s end, when she returned to an appointment at the Military Hospital, Oswestry. She was still serving in the latter capacity at the time of her demobilisation in September 1919.
Sold with copied research.
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