Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Colonel Mary J. Clune, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver and enamel, reverse dated 1979; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Capt. M. J. Clune. QARANC.); Ghana, Republic Day Medal; together with the recipient’s Q.A.R.A.N.C. Cape Badge, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1950, good very fine and better (4) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 16 June 1979.

Mary Josephine Clune was born in the Scariff district of County Galway on 20 January 1934. Trained in Ireland, she was granted a short service commission in the Q.A.R.A.N.C. on 5 February 1958, and was raised Captain on 1 April 1962 whilst employed with the Army of Ghana. Transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 5 February 1963, she spent two years serving with the Far East Land Forces at Terendak Hospital in Malaysia, before being appointed Major on 13 September 1968. Transferred to Singapore from 1970 to 1972, and Berlin and Nepal from 1975 to 1978, Clune was appointed Matron of the British Military Hospital in Munster in July 1980 and was raised Lieutenant Colonel on 31 October 1983. Posted to Rinteln in November 1984, she ended her career at Catterick in the rank of Colonel, retiring to pension on 2 April 1988.

Sold with copied research which confirms entitlement to the Ghana Republic Day Medal of 1 July 1960 under A.C.I. 241 of 1961, with restrictive permission for wear.