Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Salonika’ A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Sister Adelaide Jenkins Eves, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on bow ribbon; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Sister A. J. Eves) mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (3) £350-400

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919. ‘... the King has been graciously pleased to award the Royal Red Cross to the undermentioned ladies of the Nursing Services in recognition of their valuable services with British Forces in Salonika.’

M.I.D. London Gazette (Milne, Salonika) 28 November 1917.

Adelaide Jenkins Eves was born in Plumstead on 10 November 1877. She trained as a Nurse at Plumstead Infirmary, 1904-07 and continued to work as a private nurse there after qualifying. Miss Eves enlisted as a Nurse in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 2 February 1915. She served in Salonika, 15 September 1916-6 August 1918. She served with the 43rd General Hospital but suffering from enteritis in August 1917 she was treated at No. 66 General Hospital. She was mentioned in Lieutenant-General Milne’s despatch of 25 October 1917. On 25 October 1917 she was promoted to Sister. For her sterling wartime nursing services in Salonika she was awarded the A.R.R.C. in the 1919 New Years Honours. Miss Eves returned home in October 1918 and continued to serve, initially at Woolwich then later at the Military Families Hospital at Devonport from where she was demobilised in September 1921. In 1934, living at 94 Welling Way, Welling, Kent, being crippled with rheumatoid arthritis and somewhat overweight, she applied to the Joint Nursing and V.A.D. Services Committee for an electric tricycle to increase her mobility - this request was however turned down as being unsafe. With a quantity of copied service papers, gazette extracts and m.i.c.