Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister M. K. Douglas, Canadian Army Medical Corps

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914-15 Star (N. Sister M. K. Douglas, Can. A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (N. Sister M. K. Douglas); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased, generally good very fine (4) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Mabel Keith Douglas, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, in January 1882, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a Nursing Sister in May 1915 and witnessed two stints of active service out in France, in addition to an appointment in Mudros in the Dardanelles in the period August 1915 to April 1916. She was awarded the A.R.R.C. and ended the War with appointments back in the U.K., following which she was demobilised in Canada in February 1919. She died in December 1935; sold with copied service record.