Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War A.R.R.C. group of seven awarded to Sister Ethel Moore, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, No. 1 Maxillo Facial Surgical Unit

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, the reverse officially dated ‘1945’, in its Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, extremely fine (7) £400-£500

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 28 June 1945.

The recommendation states:

‘Miss Moore has been attached as Theatre Sister to No 1 Maxillo-Facial Unit for more than one and a half years. As a worker she is tireless. She has led an operating theatre team throughout this period from Tripoli, through Sicily to Bari, and now at Rimini, without sparing herself in any way with the utmost devotion to duty. Her standards are extremely high and never, under the greatest pressure of work, have they departed from the highest that can be demanded in the nursing service to which she belongs.’

Recommended by Major R. J. V. Battle, R.A.M.C., a noted pioneer of plastic surgery. Sold with numerous original documents, including five letters of congratulation on being awarded the A.R.R.C., and a large number of letters of reference, passport, two photographs, two Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. badges and a Charing Cross Hospital nursing medal (named).