Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Nurse I. M. Buck, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse I. M. Buck.) together with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. silver cape badge, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100

Isabel/Isabella Buck was born in Haggerston, London, in 1883. She served in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve at the London Hospital and on temporary duties on the Hospital Ships Wandilla and Llandovery Castle from 31 August 1916, before going out to Salonika from 15 July 1917, where she served in No. 42 General Hospital. However, having succumbed to sandfly fever and afterwards contracted dysentery and malaria, she was invalided form Salonica in November 1917. She then underwent a long period of transition to England via various military hospitals. In her continuing service declaration her nearest relative is shows as Lieutenant Ralph Buck, R.A.F. She joined the Nursing register in 1922 (No. 5007) and latterly lived at ‘Wandilla’, Earlswood Road, Redhill. She died in 1975.

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