Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Miss Isabella B. Grassick, Civil Hospital Reserve, who was Mentioned in Despatches for her services following the Battle of Loos

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914 Star (Miss I. B. Grassick. Civ: Hos: Res:); British War and Victory Medals (A. Sister I. B. Grassick.) good very fine, scarce to unit (4) £400-£500

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916.

Miss Isabella Beattie Grassick was born in Towie, Aberdeenshire in 1884 and served with the Civil Hospital Reserve during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 August 1914, attached initially to No. 6 Ambulance Train. She was Mentioned in Despatches for her work on the Ambulance Train following the Battle of Loos, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross Second Class. Post-War she emigrated to North America and continued to nurse there, dying in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1973.