Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Nurse Heloise Scott-Nicolls, Voluntary Aid Detachment, later Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (H. Scott-Nicolls. V.A.D.) good very fine and better (3) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Heloise Scott-Nicholls was born in Blackheath in 1891, the daughter of stockbroker Jasper Nicolls. She served as a Nurse in France with No. 140 (Surrey) Voluntary Aid Detachment from 6 October 1916 to 19 April 1917, and was later awarded the M.B.E. as Department Administrator in the Q.M.A.A.C.