Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Nursing Sister Ethel A. Crewes, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
1914 Star (Miss E. A. Crewes. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.) last letter of surname officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (Sister E. A. Crewes.) very fine and better

Pair: Private H. J. Crewes, Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), later Corps of Military Police
British War and Victory Medals (11180 Pte. H. J. Crewes. H.A.C. Inf.) very fine (5) £400-£500

Miss Ethel Annie Crewes (later Mrs. Wilson) was born at Grampound, Cornwall, on 10 November 1882. She undertook her nursing training for four years at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, from 1904 to 1908, and enlisted into the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve when a nurse at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, on 28 July 1912. Promoted Acting Sister on 1 February 1915, she was posted on mobilization to No. 3 General Hospital and later served in France at the 10th General Hospital. She resigned her position in August 1915, in order to get married in Paris, and in 1921 her address was 5 Rue Theodule Ribot, Paris.

Horace James Crewes joined the Honourable Artillery Company on 17 July 1917, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 December 1917. A note on his service record suggests that following the conclusion of hostilities that he was attached to the War Department Police, in the Army of Occupation, under the command of the Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal, at Bonn, Germany, and was subsequently transferred to the Military Police. He died at Weston-Super-Mare in 1967.

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