Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare Second War R.R.C. group of six awarded to Wing Officer Hilda Adams, Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse officially dated ‘1945’; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Sister H. Adams. P.M.R.A.F.N.S.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine and rare (6) £800-£1,200

R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1945.

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 11 June 1942.

Approximately 39 General Service Medals with clasp Palestine awarded to Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Hilda Adams was born in Shipley, Yorkshire, on 1 July 1896, and was appointed a temporary Staff Nurse in Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service on 18 January 1926. She was promoted Sister on 18 January 1929; and served overseas in Aden from 4 October 1932 to 17 November 1934; in Palestine from 17 June 1939 to 21 January 1940; and in Habbaniya from 22 January 1940 to 10 November 1941. She was promoted acting Senior Sister on 24 January 1941, and was appointed an Associate of the Royal Red Cross in the 1942 Birthday Honours’ List. She was promoted acting Matron on 1 January 1943, whilst serving at Nassau, and was advanced to the First Class of the Royal Red Cross in the 1945 New Year’s Honours’ List. She was further promoted Squadron Officer on 1 February 1949, and Wing Officer on 1 December 1949, in both cases whilst serving at R.A.F. Hospital Cosford. After a spell at the Air Ministry she relinquished her commission on 7 December 1951, her final posting being to the R.A.F. Hospital Ely. She died at Sussexdown, Storrington, West Sussex, on 19 November 1980.

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