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№ 29

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10 May 2017

Hammer Price:
£460

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister Miss Millicent M. Graham-Smith, St. John Ambulance Brigade

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, silver and enamel; Coronation (St. John Ambulance Brigade) 1911 (Nurs. Sister. M. M. Graham-Smith); St. John Service Medal, silver (3459. L/Amb. Offr. M. Graham-Smith Southampton Nsg. Div. No. 2 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923) nearly extremely fine (4) £460-500

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 21 June 1918.

Millicent Mary Graham-Smith was born at Stoke Damerel, Devon, on 25 August 1884 and served during the Great War as a Staff Nurse at Regent’s Park Hospital, Southampton from October 1914, having previously been a daily worker at the St. John Coffee Stall from August to October 1914. Awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class, she was presented with her medal by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace on 25 July 1918. After the War she remained in Southampton, and became an Ambulance Officer for the Order of St. John. She died at Southampton, Hampshire on 1 April 1981, aged 96.

Sold together with a portrait photograph of the recipient.