Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Salonika’ R.R.C. group of three awarded to Assistant Matron Sara Helen Mitchell, Territorial Force Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, on bow ribbon; British War and Victory Medals (A. Matron S. H. Mitchell.) good very fine and better (3) £500-600

R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Prior to the war, Sara Helen Mitchell was Superintendent of the District Nurses Home at Motherwell, Scotland. She joined the T.F.N.S. in August 1914 and her first appointment was to the 2nd Scottish General Hospital, 29 August 1914. She served with this unit in Edinburgh until she was appointed to the 42nd General Hospital in Salonika, arriving there in September 1916. She served there until transferred to the 66th General Hospital in Italy in December 1917, where she held the rank of Assistant Matron. In April 1918 she returned to Salonika as Assistant Matron at a Prisoner of War Hospital. In June 1918 she was appointed Assistant Matron at the 49th Stationary Hospital in Salonika. Miss Mitchell was demobilised on 23 May 1919. For her sterling wartime nursing services she was awarded the R.R.C. in June 1919. Her address in 1921 was at Strathearn College, Edinburgh. Miss Mitchell resigned from the T.F.N.S. in 1923. With a quantity of copied service papers and m.i.c.