Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. and inter-War Kaisar-I-Hind pair attributed to Staff Nurse Christina J. Oliver, Lady Minto’s Indian Nursing Association, late Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Kaisar-I-Hind, G.V.R., 2nd class, 2nd type, silver, with integral top suspension brooch bar, in case of issue; together with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge and Lady Minto’s Indian Nursing Association cape badge, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1907, good very fine and better (4) £300-£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 3 June 1916.

Kaisar-I-Hind, Second Class, India Gazette 1 January 1936.

Christina Janet Oliver was born in the village of Oughtibridge, Sheffield, in 1884. She entered the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital and Dispensary as Probationer on 21 September 1908 and received her certificate of training on 12 October 1911. Taking employment as Staff Nurse at the National Hospital for Paralysis in Bloomsbury, she obtained a certificate in the electrical treatment of nervous diseases on 29 March 1912 and a massage certificate in April 1913. Appointed Staff Nurse in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, she received the A.R.R.C. at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 29 March 1919.

Post-War, Oliver attended a midwife’s course at the Rotunda Lying-in Hospital in Dublin, receiving her certificate on 14 March 1921. She was later accepted by Lady Minto’s Indian Nursing Association and served a further 13 years from November 1923 to April 1936.

Sold with copied research confirming qualifications and a latter posting to New Delhi, but no original documentation.