Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. and French Legion of Honour group of five awarded to Sister Ethel Goodall, Haden Guest Unit and British Committee, French Red Cross

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; 1914 Star (E. Goodall. Haden Guest Unit.) significant attempt to obliterate naming; British War and Victory Medals (E. Goodhall); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband, enamel damage to last, generally very fine or better (5) £300-£400

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 4 April 1919: Miss Ethel Goodall, Sister-in-Charge, Streatham Red Cross Hospital, 3 Christchurch Road, Streatham.
‘In recognition of valuable nursing services rendered in connection with the War.’

Miss Ethel Goodall was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire, in 1887, and served during the Great War with the Haden Guest Unit in France in 1914. The roll for her award of the British War and Victory Medals records her as a Sister, British Committee, French Red Cross, and notes that she was serving in France from September 1914 to January 1915. She was presented with the A.R.R.C. by H.M. King George V at Buckingham Palace on 20 March 1920.

French Legion of Honour not confirmed.