Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Nurse M. E. Cartner, Scottish Women’s Hospital

British War and Victory Medals (M. E. Cartner.) BWM officially corrected; Serbia, Oblitch Bravery Medal, 35mm, bronze-gilt, mounted as originally worn, generally very fine or better (3) £140-180

Mabel Elizabeth Cartner was born in Gretna Green, Scotland, in 1890. She moved to England, to qualify as a nurse, and was employed at the Wharfedale Union Joint Isolation Hospital, Mentions, Yorkshire, 1909-1911. Cartner served as Nurse with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals during the Great War. She served on the Russian front, July - November 1917. During the later month the two Scottish Women’s Hospitals units that were based on the front were forced to return home due to untenable conditions.

Cartner was subsequently employed in the Govan Nurses’ Home, and as a nurse at the Royal Masonic Junior School at Bushey. She died in Fulham, in 1965.