Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War R.R.C. group of four awarded to Acting Matron Clara Viola Straatman Johnson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, unnamed, on bow ribbon; 1914 Star (Sister, Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (A. Matron) good very fine (4) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

Clara Viola Straatman Johnson trained as a Nurse at Bootle Borough Hospital, Liverpool, 1901-04. Serving with the Q.A.I.M.N.S. she was appointed a Sister in October 1913. During the Great War she entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Sister with 11 General Hospital on 17 August 1914. For her wartime services she was awarded the A.R.R.C. in 1917 and the R.R.C. in 1919. Johnson registered as a nurse on 21 July 1922, No. 5326. Her address in 1927 was ‘The Vicarage’, Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent. With copied research.