Special Collections

Sold between 19 June & 13 September 2012

3 parts

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

Anthony Garth Sabell, MBE

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№ 292

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13 September 2012

Hammer Price:
£270

A Great War R.R.C. group of three awarded to Principal Matron Christina Wilson Millar, Territorial Force Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘C. W. Millar, April 1917’, on bow ribbon; Territorial Force Nursing Service Cape Badge, silver; Territorial Army Nursing Service Cape Badge, silver, these unnamed, extremely fine (3) £300-350

R.R.C. London Gazette 23 February 1917. ‘Miss C. W. Millar, Matron, T.F.N.S., 2nd Scottish Gen. Hospl., Craigleith, Edinburgh.’

Appointed Matron, 2nd Scottish General Hospital, 2 February 1909 and appointed Principal Matron at the same hospital on 1 October 1925. With copied research.