Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Sister G. L. Hanley (nee Shelley), Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Staff Reserve, late Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister G. L. Shelley); British War and Victory Medals (Sister G. L. Hanley), mounted court-style as worn, together with her Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. badge, ranks on the Great War awards officially corrected, generally very fine or better (6) £850-950

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 31 July 1919.

Grace Lilian Hanley (nee Shelley) was embarked for South Africa as a Nursing Sister in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve in June 1900, and served there until November 1902 (Queen’s & King’s Medals). Subsequently appointed a Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Staff Reserve in October 1914, she went out to France in June 1916 and was employed at No. 14 General Hospital until the year’s end, when she returned to an appointment at the Military Hospital, Oswestry. And she was still serving in the latter capacity at the time of her demobilisation in September 1919; sold with research.