Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An embroidered table cloth signed by the In-Patients of the 1st Eastern General Hospital, c.1915, including three recipients of the Victoria Cross

A most interesting memento, a cream linen cloth, approximately 1000mm x 1000mm, bearing over 100 embroidered signatures in both red and blue thread of former in-patients of the Hospital, both Naval and Military, officers and other ranks, of the British, Imperial, and other Allied Forces, including the Victoria Cross recipients Percy Hansen, Lincolnshire Regiment, James Somers, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and Geoffrey Woolley, London Regiment, the vast majority of those signing giving their rank and unit/ ship, and in some cases giving details of where they were wounded; together with the signatures of various members of the Hospital’s permanent staff, including that of Sister Enid M. Newton (who is believed to have been the compiler and embroider). A fine historical record that illustrates the very wide range of units whose members passed through the Hospital and a most interesting research project, good condition £300-£400