Family group:

An M.B.E. group of four awarded to Technical Nursing Officer M. A. Brinnand, Ministry of Labour and National Service, late Sister, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver, mounted bow and tails, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Sister, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Sister); Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. Cape badge

Victory Medal 1914-19 (S. Nurse E. A. Brinnand) nearly extremely fine (5) £180-220

Ex Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection.

M.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1956. ‘Miss Mary Augusta Brinnaud, Technical Nursing Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 14 June 1918 (Egypt).

Mary Augusta Brinnand, trained as a nurse at the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital, 1910-13. In the Great War she served as a Sister in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. and entered the Egypt theatre of war on 10 May 1915. For her services in Egypt she was mentioned in despatches.

Edith Agnes Brinnand, trained as a nurse at the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital, 1914-17. In the latter part of the Great War she served as a Staff Nurse in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. Sold with copied Gazette extracts and m.i.c. entries.