A Second World War A.R.R.C. group of seven awarded to Sister C. Twitchin, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, late Civil Hospital Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1944’, on bow ribbon; 1914 Star (Miss, Civ. Hosp, Res.); British War and Victory Medals (A. Sister); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, very fine and better (7) £380-420

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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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1944.

M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January 1917.

Cassandra Twitchin was trained at the Middlesex Hospital from 1910 to 1914 and was employed there as a Staff Nurse. She joined the Civil Hospital Reserve and was called up from the Middlesex on the outbreak of war; entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. Initially serving with No.2 General Hospital, by 1917 she was with No.13 C.C.S. Serving in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. by the end of the war, she was mentioned in despatches for her services. She registered as a S.R.N. after the war - No.22686 dated 21 September 1923. Maintaining her contact with the nursing reserve, she was called up for service in the Second World War. She was appointed a Sister with seniority from 30 May 1941. Released from service in July 1945 she was awarded the A.R.R.C. for her wartime services.