Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Salonika operations A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Nurse H. M. Gerrard, Voluntary Aid Detachment

The Royal Red Cross (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., breast badge, silver and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (H. M. Gerrard, V.A.D.), minor contact wear, good very fine or better (3) £240-280

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919:

‘In recognition of valuable services with the British Forces in Salonika.’

Hilda Mary Gerrard enrolled as a Nurse in the Edinburgh/10 Detachment of the V.A.D. in September 1915. Initially employed at St. Andrew’s Military Hospital, she was transferred - via Malta - to 64th General Hospital in Salonika in July 1917, in which latter capacity she was awarded her A.R.R.C. She was discharged in April 1919 (accompanying British Red Cross letter, refers).