Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

A Great War R.R.C. attributed to Matron M. L. Appleyard, Territorial Force Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, unnamed, mounted from bow ribbon

Four: Sister L. F. Appleyard, Territorial Force Nursing Service

British War and Victory Medals (Sister); Serbia, Cross of Mercy, 1912, gilt metal and enamel, slight enamel damage; Serbia, Red Cross Medal 1912-13, silver and enamel, mounted from bow ribbon, extremely fine, except where stated (5) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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R.R.C. London Gazette 21 October 1917.

Miss Mary Louisa Appleyard, a former Matron of St. Mark’s Hospital, City Road, London, was recommended by the Principal Matron, T.F.N.S., 1st London General Hospital, to the position as Matron at St. Gabriel’s College, Camberwell, on 18 May 1916. She was appointed Matron of the 1st London General Hospital on 1 July 1916 and awarded the R.R.C. in October 1917. Matron Appleyard resigned from the hospital in 1934, aged 60 years. Sold with copied research.

R.R.C. sold with a typed letter from Marlborough House, dated 11 February 1918, ‘The Private Secretary is desired by Queen Alexandra to ask Matron Mary Appleyard to accept the accompanying Book and Card (these not in lot) as a small gift from Her Majesty in recognition of the services rendered by her to the sick and wounded. Quen Alexandra greatly regrets that owing to Her Majesty’s absence from London at the time when Matron Appleyard was invested with the Royal Red Cross, she was unable to have the pleasure personally of presenting the Book and Card’. Also with a newspaper cutting bearing the photograph of Matron M. L. Appleyard, entitled, ‘Miss M. L. Appleyard, Matron T.F.N.S. 1st London General Hospital, awarded the Royal Red Cross’.

Miss Laura Appleyard, served in the T.F.N.S., 4 November 1915-14 March 1919. She served as a Sister with the 37th and 29th Hospitals in Macedonia and then with the 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell. Sold with copied research.

The group sold with an award document for the Serbian Red Cross Medal 1912-13, named to ‘Miss Laura F. Appleyard’, and dated July 1915. On the document, the medal’s official title with the dates ‘1912-1913’ has been amended in ink to read, ‘1912-1913-1914-1915’. On the document, is typed in English: ‘The Serbian Red Cross Society, taking into consideration the services rendered to the Society, the wounded and the sick, confers to Miss Laura J. Appleyard the Silver Medal. No.3667 July 8/21st 1915’. With two photographs.