A rare Boer War R.R.C. and Great War bar group of seven awarded to Matron A. S. Bond, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, edge of lower arm inscribed, ‘A. S. Bond’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister); 1914-15 Star (Matron, R.R.C., Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Matron); Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Cape Badge, unnamed, good very fine (7) £3000-3500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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R.R.C. London Gazette 29 November 1901.

Bar to R.R.C. London Gazette 14 March 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette 8 February 1901, 10 September 1901, 21 June 1916.

Miss Alice Sweeting Bond was appointed to the Army Nursing Service on 27 January 1892. Serving in the Boer War, she was present at the defence of Ladysmith and in operations in Natal, October 1899-May 1902, serving in No.15 General Hospital, Howick, Natal. For her services she was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the R.R.C. Appointed to the Q.A.I.M.N.S. in 1903, she was promoted to Matron in 1907. Serving in the Great War, she was again mentioned in despatches and awarded a bar to her R.R.C. Matron Bond retired on 1 December 1920.