Auction Catalogue

13 & 14 September 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 298

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13 September 2012

Hammer Price:
£270

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Sister Ellen Louise McAllister, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, unnamed, mounted on a bow ribbon; British War Medal 1914-20 (Sister); Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Cape Badge, silver, unnamed; together with an erased Victory Medal 1914-19, good very fine (4) £200-250

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916. ‘Sister, Acting Matron, Miss E. L. McAllister, Q.A.I.M.N,S.’

Ellen Louise McAllister was appointed to the Q.A.I.M.N.S. in July 1904. She served as a Sister (Acting Matron) during the war, entering the France/Flanders theatre on 14 August 1917. Awarded the A.R.R.C. for her wartime services. Sister McAllister retired from the Q.A.I.M.N.S. in September 1925. With copied research.