Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Alice Robson, 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, in Garrard, London case of issue; 1914 Star (A. Sister, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister) these three mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-460

Alice Robson was born in Jarrow-on-Tyne on 27 August 1868 and was educated privately and at the High School for Girls at Gateshead-on-Tyne. She trained as a Nurse at the North Riding Infirmary, Middlesbrough-on-Tees, qualifying in 1902. When she left the hospital in November 1903, she was Sister in Charge of a male medical ward. She then served at the Palmer Memorial Hospital, Jarrow-on-Tyne and by 1909 she was Matron. In 1909 she applied to join the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. Prior to the Great War she was serving at the Walthamstow Hospital.

During the Great War she served as a Sister in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., in France from August 1914 until August 1915 when she resigned in order to marry - becoming Mrs Alice Scott. During this period she served at No. 5 General Hospital; No. 7th Stationary Hospital and No. 4 Ambulance Train. After marriage she served as Matron at an auxiliary hospital in Scotland. In 1919 she was living at ‘The Manse, St. Fallans, Perthshire’. Awarded the A.R.R.C. for her war service (London Gazette 4 April 1919).

With copied m.i.c. and service papers.