Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Boer War and Great War Royal Red Cross pair awarded to Nursing Superintendent Edith M. Hodgson, late Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, R.R.C., 2nd class, G.V.R., in case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister E. M. Hodgson) this officially re-impressed as frequently issued, good very fine (2) £140-180

Royal Red Cross, 2nd class London Gazette 24 October 1917.

Edith Mary Hodgson trained at the Chorlton Infirmary and enrolled in the Princess Christian Army Nursing Service Reserve in August 1900. She served in South Africa with No. 8 Stationary Hospital at Bloemfontein. During the Great War she did not go overseas but served as Superintendent of the Rusthall Auxiliary Hospital, Tunbridge Wells.