Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The British War Medal and rare Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, prize medals awarded to Dr. Barbara Richardson, French Red Cross, who served at the Scottish Women’s Hospital at Rouaymont during the Great War

British War Medal 1914-20 (B. Richardson.); together with three Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, silver prize medals, 48.5mm, the reverses engraved ‘Chemistry, Awarded to Barbara Richardson, Session 1902-03, James Kerr B.Sc, A.I.C., Lecturer; Practical Zoology, Presented to Barbara Richardson, Session 1903, Marion I. Newbigin DSc., Lecturer; Systematic Botany, Awarded to Barbara Richardson, Session 1903, Dr. R. Stewart MacDougall M.A., Lecturer’, all in Kirkwood, Edinburgh cases of issue, extremely fine, the prize medals all rare (4) £800-£1,000

Miss Barbara Richardson was born at Stuffynwoods, near Mansfield, and was educated at East Bridgford College, Nottingham, and Edinburgh University, graduating M.B., Ch.B. in 1907. She served with the French Red Cross during the Great War on the Western Front at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Rouaymont from May 1918, and subsequently served as Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Staffordshire County Council.

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