Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of five awarded to Assistant Nurse E. J. Pinkerton, Voluntary Aid Detachment, who served over four years in a Military Hospital in France tending to the sick and wounded

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (E. J. Pinkerton. V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (A. Nurse E. J. Pinkerton); British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, bronze, good very fine (5) £400-£500

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Miss Evelyn Janet Pinkerton was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, in 1879, the daughter of novelist Thomas Pinkerton. A resident of Bangor in North Wales, she enrolled into the Caernarvonshire Detachment of the V.A.D. in May 1913 and spent three weeks on nursing duties at the Caernarvonshire and Anglesey Infirmary, followed by service at the Bangor Military Hospital from November 1914 to April 1915. Transferred to a Military Hospital in France as Assistant Nurse on 5 October 1915, she clearly made a positive impression on her superiors, her character and work being noted as 'excellent'.

Mentioned in Despatches on 25 May 1918 for services with the Voluntary Aid Detachment, she returned home on 16 October 1919 and was decorated with the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), by Queen Alexandra at a reception held at Marlborough House not long thereafter. Miss Pinkerton died on 12 June 1938, her last recorded address being No. 4, St David's Avenue, Blackpool.

Sold with copied research, including two record cards and correspondence between the vendor and the British Red Cross.