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Sold between 19 June & 13 September 2012

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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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№ 1217

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£900

Four: Sister A. A. Hutchinson, Lady Doctors’ Hospital

1914 Star (A. A. Hutchinson, Lady Doctors’ Hosp.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister A. A. Hutchinson); Belgium, Queen Elizabeth Medal, bronze and enamel, good very fine, rare £600-800

Charge Sister Anna Ada Hutchinson entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 10 September 1914. The ‘Lady Doctors’ Hospital’ may be identified as that run by Dr Flora Murray’s contingent at Claridge’s, Paris - which was staffed entirely by women. With some copied research. Belgian decoration not confirmed.