Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War A.R.R.C., B.E.M. group of five awarded to Head Naval Nursing Auxiliary Jean M. A. Workman, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1957’; British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (Miss Jean M. A. Workman. A.R.R.C., Q.A.R.N.N.S.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (0019 J. M. A. Workman. H.N.N.A. H.M.S. Collingwood.) good very fine (5) £340-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 13 June 1957.

B.E.M. London Gazette 2 June 1962.

Jean Margaret Allan Workman was born in Kensington in 1902, the daughter of Irish shipbroker Robert A. Workman. Raised by a governess and surrounded by servants at a property in St. John’s Wood, she moved to Hayling Island in the 1930’ and took employment with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service in Portsmouth. Awarded the A.R.R.C. as Head Voluntary Aid Detachment Nursing Member (Naval Hospitals), she was further recognised with the award of the British Empire Medal in 1962. Retired to 63 St. Thomas’s Avenue, Hayling Island, she died on 14 August 1977.