Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War A.R.R.C. group of five attributed to Sister Jean Thomson, Territorial Army Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse officially dated 1944, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue, 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Territorial Force Nursing Service Cape Badge, silver; and a small gold and enamel badge bearing the initials ‘K S H T W S S T’, minor enamel damage to last, otherwise good very fine or better (7) £460-500

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 8 June 1944.

The original recommendation states: ‘This Nursing Officer has served with her present unit in the British North Africa Force since 21 December 1942. For over fourteen months she has been cheerfully untiring in her nursing of the wounded, often under very difficult and trying conditions. One of the older of the Nursing Staff, her uncomplaining devotion to duty singles her out from a large staff of Nursing Officers as well meriting recognition of her excellent work.’

Miss Jean Thomson, of Sale, Manchester, trained at Salford Union Infirmary, Manchester, from 1909-12, and subsequently practised as a nurse in London. She was commissioned Sister in the Territorial Army Nursing Service on 4 May 1942, and served during the Second World War in North Africa, being awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class. She relinquished her commission on 1 August 1950, retaining the honorary rank of Sister.

Sold with named Buckingham Palace enclosure for the A.R.R.C.