Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Matron E. P. Meikle, Volunteer Aid Detachment

British War and Victory Medals (E. P. Meikle, V.A.D.); Belgium, Order of the Crown, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gilt and enamel, good very fine and better (3) £300-360

Edith Patricia Meikle was born in Banff, Perthshire c.1875. She was employed as a Nurse in Glasgow at the time of the 1901 Census and was a Hospital Matron at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, Lambeth at the time of the 1911 Census. She was employed at Bethlem Hospital, 1905-12 - her brother Dr Meikle was sometime student House Physician at Bethlem. She enrolled into the V.A.D. on 9 March 1917 and served as a Rest Station Manager in France, 6 September 1917-25 March 1918. She also served as a Matron for the Belgian Field Hospital at Hoogstadt - a service for which she was awarded the Order of the Crown. She is possibly the same as the ‘Sister Meikle’, a trained nurse, who went to India in the 1920’s as part of Lady Reading’s personal staff - the Earl of Reading being the Viceroy of India, 1921-26. With a quantity of copied research, including a photocopied photograph of Matron Meikle wearing her Order of the Crown.