Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An inter-War R.R.C. group of three awarded to Superintending Sister Miss Marguerite M. Abraham, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, with lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (Supt. Sister M. M. Abraham. Q.A.R.N.N.S.) good very fine and better (3) £1,000-£1,400

R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1930.

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 March 1929.

Miss Marguerite May Abraham trained at the London Hospital, and joined Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service at Haslar on 17 January 1910. Appointed a Nursing Sister at Chatham on 30 August 1910, she served during the Great War at Gibraltar Hospital from the outbreak of hostilities until July 1916, and then at Haslar from July 1916 to the cessation of hostilities, with a brief period serving in the Hospital Ship China from 12 August to 21 November 1916, and was promoted Superintending Sister on 22 November 1916.

Following the Great War Miss Abraham remained in the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service, and was employed in Malta from March 1919 to December 1921, and again from November 1924 to January 1927. Returning to the U.K. she was was again stationed at Haslar, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross 2nd Class in 1929, and was invested with the medal by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales at St. James’s Palace on 28 March 1929. The following year she was awarded the Royal Red Cross 1st Class, and was invested with the medal by H.M. King George V at Buckingham Palace on 4 March 1930. She retired from the Service on 28 April 1933.

Sold with copied research which confirms that the recipient’s A.R.R.C. was returned on 27 March 1930.