Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare Memorial Plaque pair awarded to Sister Frances Ethel Astell, Territorial Force Nursing Service, who died in Macedonia on 17 December 1917

British War Medal 1914-20 (Sister F. E. Astell); Memorial Plaque ‘She died for Freedom and Honovr’ (Ethel Frances Astell) nearly extremely fine (2)
£2000-2500

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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Frances Ethel Astell was born in Handsworth, Staffordshire on 9 July 1878. As a Nursing Sister in the Territorial Force Nursing Service she entered the Salonika theatre of war on 9 January 1917. She died of disease in Macedonia on 17 December 1917 and was buried in the Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria. She was the daughter of Mrs M. J. Astell, of 187 Queen’s Road, Norwich. With a copy of the recipient’s birth and death certificates and other copied research including m.i.c. which shows entitlement to the Victory Medal.