Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-war M.B.E., Second World War R.R.C. group of nine awarded to Superintendent Violet Mildred Rees, Nursing Services East Bengal, late Indian Military Nursing Service

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse dated ‘1945’; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (N-Sister V. M. Rees); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, these unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (9) £800-1000

M.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1956. ‘... on the advice of Her Majesty’s Pakistan Ministers, ...’ ‘Miss Violet Mildred Rees, Superintendent, Nursing Services, East Bengal.’

R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1946. ‘Miss Violet Rees, Matron (NZ.4410) Indian Military Nursing Service.’

With copied gazette extracts.