Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1204

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£160

A Great War A.R.R.C. to Assistant Matron Miss F. Prior, Westminster Hospital

Royal Red Cross,
2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on bow ribbon, nearly extremely fine £100-140

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 31 July 1919. ‘Assistant Matron, Westminster Hospital, London.

Sold with framed telegrams from the Queen’s Private Secretary and Norman Fowler, M.P., the Secretary of State for Social Services, congratulating Miss Prior on her one hundredth birthday. Also with a framed photograph of Miss Prior at her 100th Birthday celebrations - seen wearing the A.R.R.C., Coronation 1911 and Coronation 1953; a framed photograph of Florence Prior as a young nurse; two other photographs; National Identity Card bearing a photograph of the recipient; a League of Westminster Hospital Nurses presentation autograph album, cover inscribed, ‘Florence Prior, A.R.R.C.’, presented on 27 November 1954, and signed by many of the staff (?); a booklet entitled,
The New Westminster Hospital; some associated research.