Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell

An inter-war R.R.C. group of four awarded to Superintendent Alice Goodwyn, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, unnamed, on bow ribbon; 1914-15 Star (Nsg-Sister Q.A.M.N.S.I.); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. oak leaf (Nsg-Sister) very fine and better (4) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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R.R.C. London Gazette 29 January 1926. ‘Miss Alice Goodwyn, A.R.R.C.’ ‘Lady Superintendents, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India, in recognition of the special devotion and competency displayed by them in their nursing duties in Military Hospitals in India.’

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 12 September 1919. ‘Miss Alice Goodwyn, Senior Nursing Sister, Q.A.M.N.S.I.’ ‘... in recognition of their nursing services in India in connection with the War,’

Alice Goodwyn was appointed a Nursing Sister with the Q.A.M.N.S.I. on 14 October 1903. Promoted to Senior Nursing Sister on 18 September 1917. Latterly a Superintendent of a Military Hospital in India. Her m.i.c. records service aboard the hospital ship Varela. With copied research.