Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Nurse Dorothy S. Holmes, Voluntary Aid Detachment, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (D. S. Holmes. V.A.D.) nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90

Miss Dorothy Scott Holmes was born in Liverpool in 1882, the daughter of Isaac and Isabel Holmes. She served as a nurse in Egypt from 26 October 1915 to 26 April 1916 and France from 7 June 1916 to 7 December 1916, later working in London at Camberwell and Millbank Military Hospitals. Awarded one scarlet efficiency stripe in March 1918, she returned home to Liverpool following the cessation of hostilities and died there on 30 November 1956.

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