Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Miss Mary Emmeline Walker

British War and Victory Medals (M. E. Walker); Serbia, Cross of Mercy 1912, gilt base metal and enamel, good very fine (3) £100-140

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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With copied m.i.c. showing first service in the Balkans in September 1915 - serving with the V.A.D.; Q.A.I.M.N.S. and as an Orderly with the French Red Cross. A note with the lot states that Miss Walker was a Nursing Sister with the Girton and Newnham Unit, Scottish Women’s Hospitals. In copied extracts from A History of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, by Eva Shaw McLaren, she is mentioned several times as serving at a Serbian refuge/orphanage on the Isle of Corsica. Listed as a Serbian speaker. Serbian decoration not confirmed.