Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Miss C. H. J. Paterson, French Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (C. H. J. Paterson); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, star on ribbon; France, Reconnaissance Medal 1917, 2nd Class, silver, with blue enamelled star on ribbon; Belgium, Queen Elizabeth Medal, bronze and enamel; France, Society for Aid to Military Wounded Cross 1914-19, silver, ribbon bearing two gilt and enamel distinguished nursing service emblems, together with another gilt and enamel laurel leaf emblem; France, ‘Soldiers Day’ Cross 1915, silver, good very fine (7) £180-220

Sold with a postcard to ‘Miss Paterson, Corfe Lodge, Parkstone, Dorset’ wishing her a Happy Christmas, postmarked 23 December 1908. Also with an extract from the Journal of the O.M.R.S. re ‘L’Insigne Spécial for Nurses’ by Norman Gooding; together with a copied m.i.c. Foreign medals not confirmed.