Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Ida Mary Tuxford, 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; 1914-15 Star (Sister I. M. Tuxford, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister I. M. Tuxford) some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4)
£360-400

Ida Mary Tuxford was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 2 June 1876. Coming from a ‘medical’ family, she trained as a Nurse at the West Kent General Hospital, Maidstone, June 1898-June 1901. Accepted into the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. in May 1915. Served as a Staff Nurse and Sister in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. at home and abroad from May 1915 to April 1919. Served initially at the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington; then at the Ras-el-Tin Hospital, Alexandria and in May 1916, to the 18th Stationary Hospital, Suez. In 1917 she went with the hospital to Salonica. In July 1917 she was invalided (suffering from ‘debility’) to Malta and thence England. For her services she was awarded the A.R.R.C. (London Gazette 9 April 1919). She died in 1968. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers and reports.