Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Dr. Elizabeth Hurdon, C.B.E., attached Royal Army Medical Corps, who served during the Great War as a Lady Doctor with the Malta Garrison, and was later the first Director of the Marie Curie Hospital, London

British War and Victory Medals (E. Hurdon.) good very fine (2) £100-£140

C.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938: Miss Elizabeth Hurdon, M.D., lately Director, Medical Services and Research, the Marie Curie Hospital, Hampstead, and now a member of the Advisory Council of the Hospital.’

Elizabeth Hurdon was born in 1868 and trained as a gynaecologist and pathologist. Following the outbreak of the Great War she volunteered for service in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served at the Malta Garrison as a lady doctor (attached R.A.M.C.) from August 1916. Post-War she assisted in the development and was the first Director of Marie Curie Hospital in London. She retired in 1938, and was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in that year’s Birthday Honours’ List. She died in 1941.

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