Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Nursing Superintendent Edith M. Hodgson, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister E. M. Hodgson.) officially re-impressed naming, edge bruise to QSA, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £400-500

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917.

Edith Mary Hodgson trained at the Chorlton Infirmary and enrolled in the Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 13 August 1900. She served at the Military Hospital, Aldershot, before being posted to South Africa where she was with No. 8 Stationary Hospital at Bloemfontein. She remained on the Reserve after the Boer War, and during the Great War served as the Superintendent of the Rustle Auxiliary Hospital, Tunbridge Wells; it was in this office that she was nominated as an Associate of the Royal Red Cross. She did not go overseas during the Great War and so is not entitled to any campaign medals.

Sold together with a Boer War ‘Transvaal Souvenir’ Medal 1899-1900, white metal, with unofficial pinback suspension, this in poor condition.