Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Staff Nurse Miss Dorothy F. Jacobs, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (S/Nurse D. F. Jacobs) rank officially corrected on BWM, good very fine (3) £300-£400

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919

Dorothy Frances Jacob was born 5 March 1889 in Prescot, Lancashire, the daughter of Captain (later Major) J. E. Jacob. She joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve as a Staff Nurse on 13 May 1917. Her previous employment was noted as the London Hospital, Whitechapel, and her home in Aldershot. Serving overseas with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, in June 1919, she was awarded the Royal Red Cross 2nd Class for services in Egypt. She is noted as serving at the Convelesant Depot, Montagah, Alexandria in 1919- 20, returning to Aldershot on 24 July 1921, and was finally demobilised on 31 July 1921. She died at St. Leonards, Sussex, on 18 December 1981.

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