Auction Catalogue

13 & 14 September 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 287

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13 September 2012

Hammer Price:
£720

An inter-war R.R.C. group of six awarded to Miss Winifred Eveline Molesworth, British Royal Red Cross Society and Order of St. John, later Matron, Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, unnamed; 1914 Star (B.R.C.S. & O. O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (B.R.C.S. & St. J.J.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (6) £500-600

R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1935. ‘Miss Winifred Eve Molesworth, Princess Mary’s RAF Nursing Service’ ‘In recognition of the exceptional devotion and competency displayed by her in the nursing and care of the sick in RAF Hospitals at Home and Abroad.’