Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (2 Lieut. B. V. J. Vigrass; Sister A. Vigrass; Sister M. L. Harlock) nearly very fine and better (3) £80-100

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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Annie Donlon was born c.1892. As a Sister in Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. she entered the Salonika theatre of war on 24 July 1918. She married Benjamin V. J. Vigrass at Ahmednagar in 1920. He had enlisted in the Army in 1909 and was commissioned in August 1918, serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. He retired from the Regular Army in 1933 and was appointed Major and Quartermaster of the 5th T.A. Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. With them he served during the Second World War. During his military career he was awarded the M.B.E. and T.D. Major Vigrass died on 30 November 1954; his wife Annie died on 25 August 1967. With copied research.

Mary Louisa Harlock trained at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, 1911-14. During the Great War she served with the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. With copied m.i.c.