Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister S. Tyler, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914-15 Star (S./Nurse S. Tyler, Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister S. Tyler); France, Red Cross Society Medal 1914-19, silver, together with oval Q.A.I.M.N.S. badge, this last with polished obverse, otherwise very fine and better (6) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Sadie Tyler was born in Stockport, Cheshire in May 1882, the daughter of a retired Indian Army officer. Educated at Stockport High School for Girls, she trained as a nurse at the Royal Hospital Richmond from January 1912 to January 1915, in which latter month she joined the Q.A.I.M.N.S. and took up an appointment as a Staff Nurse at Alexandra Military Hospital at Cosham. Later that year, in August, she was embarked for France, where she joined No. 10 General Hospital, her service record recording her subsequent movements in detail. Advanced to Sister and awarded the A.R.R.C., Tyler took up an appointment in Gibraltar after the war’s end and was still serving in the early 1920s; sold with copied service record.