Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Matron, Elsie Christian Russel Philip, Northern Infirmary, Inverness, late Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., no clasp, silver and enamel, unnamed, on bow ribbon; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister E. C. R. Philip); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister E. C. R. Philip) last with test mark to edge, good very fine (3) £650-750

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918. ‘Miss Elsie Christian Philip, Matron, Northern Infirmary, Inverness.’

Elsie Christian Russel Philip trained at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh and entered the P.C.A.N.S.R. as number ‘340’ on 23 February 1900. In South Africa she served at No. 1 General Hospital and later at the Stationary Hospital at Aliwal North. With roll extract and other notes.