Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Staff Nurse Miss Amy Lewis, 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; British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse. A. Lewis.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze star emblem on riband, mounted court-style for display, the A.R.R.C. with lady’s bow riband; together with the recipient’s Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve cape badge, generally good very fine (5) £600-£800

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 31 July 1919 Miss Amy Lewis, Staff Nurse, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., Military Hospital, Pembroke Dock:
‘In recognition of valuable nursing services in connection with the War.’

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 18 August 1920:
‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’

Miss Amy Lewis was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 26 April 1880 and trained at Chelsea Infirmary and joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 23 June 1916. She served during the Great War in the Salonika theatre of War from 1 July 1916, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre ‘for her courage and coolness shown during the bombing of her hospital.’ (article in the British Journal of Nursing, 12 January 1918 refers). Invalided from Salonika on 28 August 1917, she subsequently served at the Military Hospital, Pembroke Dock, and for her services there was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class. She relinquished her appointment on 17 September 1920.

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