Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Nursing Sister G. B. McCullouch, Canadian Army Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, unnamed; 1914-15 Star (N. Sister G. B. McCullough, Can. A.M.C.); together with erased British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, good very fine and better (4)
£200-250

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917. ‘Miss Georgiana Beach McCullough, Nursing Sister, Canadian A.N.S.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 6 December 1916; 21 July 1917.

Georgiana Beach McCullough was born in Ottawa on 9 July 1887. As a Trained Nurse she was appointed to a commissioned rank in the Canadian Army Medical Corps on 29 September 1914 and arrived in England in October 1914. Served in France, the Dardanelles, Salonika and Alexandria with the Canadian A.M.C. at the Canadian No. 1 Stationary Hospital - being twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the A.R.R.C. for her work in Salonika. She later served in the Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Buxton, the C.A.M.C. Depot, C.A.M.C. Training School and the 16th Canadian General Hospital. Returning to Canada after the war, she was demobilised in October 1919. With copied service papers and gazette extracts.