A good Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Sister E. L. Boag, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, late B.R.C. & St. J.J. and French Red Cross

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., breast badge, silver and enamel, on Lady’s bow; British War and Victory Medals (E. L. Boag, B.R.C. & St. J.J.); France, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18; France, Special Insignia for Nurses, bronze crossed palm leaves on a white riband, mounted as worn; France, Society for Wounded Soldiers 1864-1866, base metal, silver, together with the recipient’s Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Badge, silver, only small traces of enamel left on the central cross on the French Special Insignia, otherwise good very fine or better (7)
£220-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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Ellen Louisa Boag was born at Winster Vicarage, Windermere in September 1887 and completed her education at Wimbledon High School and in Switzerland, before training and serving as a nurse at the London Hospital, Whitechapel 1909-14. Having then served out in France as a Ward Sister and Theatre Sister in the French Red Cross at the Hopital Temporaire at Arc en Barrois from January 1915 to January 1916, she joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve and was posted to a hospital in Vincent Square in Pimlico, London, where she served until being demobilised in July 1919; sold with copied service record.