Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Mabel C. Carmichael-Walker, a civilian attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, who served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded at Wimereux, near Boulogne

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband; British War Medal 1914-20 (M. C. Carmichael-Walker.); Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze and enamel, nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920: Miss Mabel Caroline Walker, Founder of the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel, York.

Mabel Caroline Carmichael-Walker was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland on 2 August 1865, the daughter of Colonel Sir George Walker, K.C.B. From 1897 to 1908 she servedas Honorary Superintendent of the Institutes for Soldiers in South Africa; and in 1908 founded the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel at Fulford, York, of which Field Marshal the Lord Roberts was President. She served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded in Wimereux, near Boulogne, France, attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, from December 1914 to June 1917 (not entitled to either a 1914-15 Star or a Victory Medal), and upon returning to York she enlarged the Institute and opened a hostel-annexe for the relatives of the wounded and sick soldiers. For her services she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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