Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Staff Nurse R. E. O’Connell, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

1914-15 Star (S/Nurse, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaf on ribbon (S/Nurse); Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. Cape Badge, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1917, unnamed, very fine (4) £160-200

M.I.D. London Gazette 7 March 1918. ‘Staff Nurse Miss R.E. O’Connell, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.

Rose Eileen O’Connell, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., entered the Egypt theatre of war on 20 August 1915, serving in No.19 General Hospital, Alexandria. During the course of the war she married becoming Mrs R. E. Bennett.Sold with copied m.i.c. (2)