Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An extremely rare Third Afghan War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Nursing Sister Miss Edith E. Bott, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India, late and later Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, unnamed as issued, with Gaunt, London, case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Sister E. E. Bott. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Matron E. E. Bott.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Nsg. Sister E. E. Bott. Q.A.M.N.S.I.); War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, the A.R.R.C. without lady’s bow riband; together with the recipient’s Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve cape badge, generally good very fine (7) £1,000-£1,400

One of only 5 A.R.R.C.s awarded for nursing services ‘in the Field’ during the Third Afghan War.

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 August 1920 Miss Edith Elton Bott, Nursing Sister, Q.A.M.N.S.I.:
‘In recognition of valuable nursing services in the Field in the Afghan War, 1919.’

Miss Edith Elton Bott was born in Rusholm, Manchester, on 31 July 1887 and trained at Guys Hospital, London. She joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 6 August 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, and subsequently as a Matron in the Hospital Ship Re a’Italia. Appointed a Nursing Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India on 14 December 1918, she served with them during the Third Afghan War, and for her services in the Field was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class. She was promoted Senior Nursing Sister on 29 August 1930.

Edith Bott saw further service during the Second World War, being re-employed in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 1 October 1943, before relinquishing her commission on account of disability on 20 July 1945. She died at Wallingford, Berkshire, on 27 June 1970.

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