The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister V. S. Newman, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914 Star, with clasp (Sister, Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister) very fine and better (4) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916. ‘... in recognition of their valuable services in connection with the war’.

Violet Sherston Newman was born in Hawkridge, near Dulverton, Somerset on 14 June 1882, the daughter of the Rector of Hawkridge. Educated at home, she trained for nursing at the Taunton & Somerset Hospital, 1903-07. She was then employed as Staff Nurse at Corsham Memorial Hospital, Kingswood, Bristol, November 1907-September 1908; then as a Theatre and Outpatient Sister at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, September 1908-July 1909; then after a period of private nursing, August 1909-April 1910, she was a Sister at the Gordon Hospital, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London. In July 1910 she entered the Q.A.I.M.N.S. serving at Woolwich and Chatham. Sister Newman entered the France/Flanders theatre of war with the 7th General Hospital on 8 August 1914. She later served in the Mesopotamian theatre of war. She resigned from the service on her marriage to Colonel Kinch, R.E., in June 1919. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c.- clasp confirmed.