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Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell

Anthony Garth Sabell, MBE

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№ 295

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13 September 2012

Hammer Price:
£820

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of five awarded to Lady Superintendent Rosamond Lucy Nevile, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service in India

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, unnamed; 1914 Star (Nursing Sister, Q.A.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Nsg. Sister); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (N-Sister, Q.A.M.N.S.I.) very fine (5) £450-550

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 12 September 1919. ‘Miss Rosamond Lucy Nevile, Nursing Sister, Q.A.M.N.S.I.’

M.I.D. not confirmed.

Rosamond Lucy Nevile was appointed a Staff Nurse with the Q.A.M.N.S.I. in 1907. As a Nursing Sister with the Q.A.M.N.S.I. she entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 November 1914. Later serving once more in India, she was awarded the A.R.R.C. for her services there. Appointed a Senior Nursing Sister in November 1924 and Lady Superintendent in August 1930. With copied research.