Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister Mabel O. Lindsay, Canadian Army Medical Corps, late Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service for India

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, the obverse privately engraved to obverse ‘Mabel Ogilvie Lindsay June 1918’, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (N. Sister M. O. Lindsay. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (N. Sister M. O. Lindsay) good very fine (4) £400-£500

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

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A.R.R.C. London Gazette 21 June 1918.

Mabel Ogilvie Lindsay was born in Edinburgh on 12 July 1881 and completed her nursing studies at the Radcliffe County Hospital in Oxford. She spent the following three years with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service for India, before attesting for the Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Service on 29 March 1915. Appointed Nursing Sister at No. 16 Canadian General Hospital in Orpington, Kent, she received her A.R.R.C. at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 1919.