Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of five awarded to Sister Janet S. H. Niccol, Territorial Force Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sister J. Niccol); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-18 (S. Nurse J. S. H. Niccol. T.F.N.S.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,200-£1,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Female Medics.

View
Collection

Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2012.

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917: Miss Janet S. H. Niccol, Staff Nurse, T.F.N.S.
‘For valuable services with the Armies in the Field.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 July 1917 (Salonika).

Janet Stevenson Hunter Niccol trained for Nursing at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow and received maternity training at the Royal Infirmary, Dundee. Prior to the war she was a Ward Sister at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow and was engaged in Private Nursing, 1912-14. She served during the Great War as a Nurse with the Territorial Force Nursing Service in the Salonika theatre of war from 1 July 1916, and as a Staff Nurse was mentioned in General Milne’s despatches and awarded the A.R.R.C. for her wartime services. After the war she was a Sister and Junior Matron at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow; Superintendent of Nurses at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow and then Matron at Seaford Hospital Ayr. In 1928 she was appointed Matron to the Royal Infirmary, Dundee. In 1932 and 1937 she was elected to the General Nursing Council for Scotland; resigning in 1942.