The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to The Hon. Georgina M. Cross, Voluntary Aid Detachment, who was additionally Mentioned in Despatches

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, with lady’s bow riband but adjusted and worn from a straight riband with additional suspension ring; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Hon. G. M. Cross. V.A.D.), in named card boxes of issue, and outer O.H.M.S. transmission envelope addressed to ‘The. Honble. Georgina M. Cross, Ash House. Broughton-in-Furness’; Defence Medal, with Home Secretary’s enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Miss G. M. Cross, Ash House, Broughton-in-Furness, Lancs.’, nearly extremely fine (4) £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 May 1918.

The Hon. Georgina Marjorie Cross was born on 6 September 1886, the daughter of the Hon. William Henry Cross, and the granddaughter of Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, sometime Home Secretary. She served during the Great War as an Assistant Nurse with the Royal Red Cross (Cumberland 10) from 8 July 1916 to 10 November 1919, landing in France on 8 July 1916, and for her services was both Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the A.R.R.C., being invested with her Royal Red Cross insignia by H.M. the King on 12 July 1919. In the 1939 Register she describes herself as an Artist, and also British Red Cross Society, Nursing Auxiliary. She died unmarried on 4 February 1958 and is buried at St. Anne’s Church, Thwaites, Cumberland.

Sold with a possibly related enamelled British Red Cross pin badge, Red Cross Proficiency in Nursing enamelled medal (28990 I. M. E. Cross) and British Red Cross Society County of Cumberland pin badge (010329 E. M. Riley).