Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1916 ‘Ireland’ A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Sister Rosamond Plumtree, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (Sister R. Plumtree.) good very fine (3) £400-£500

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916:
‘In recognition of valuable services in connection with the War.’

Miss Rosamund Plumtree was born in Peterborough on 7 March 1885, and was educated at Nottingham Girls’ High School. She trained as a nurse at the Shropshire Infirmary, Shrewsbury, from January 1908 to January 1911, and subsequently served as a private nurse in the households of James Niven, the Medical Officer of Health for Manchester, and of Richard Cooper, the politician and industrial chemist. Following the outbreak of the Great War she volunteered for Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in August 1914, and was posted to King George V Hospital, Dublin. For her services there she was decorated with the Royal Red Cross 2nd Class in the 1916 Birthday Honours’ List, possibly for services rendered during the Easter Uprising. After transferring to the Western Front in May 1917, she served in the 7th General Hospital (including Barge 371), the 3rd General Hospital; the 47th Casualty Clearing Station, and at the 2nd Stationary Hospital. She died in Nottinghamshire in November 1943.

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