Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister L. Ainsworth, A.N.S.R.) good very fine £200-250

Lillian Ainsworth trained at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. She joined Princess Christian’s Army Nusing Service Reserve in February 1898 and was serving in South Africa in September 1900.

Served in No.8 General Hospital. In the Great War she was mentioned in Maude’s despatch of 2 November 1917 (London Gazette 8 March 1918).