Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (M. Hoskins. B.R.C. & St. J.J.) very fine £60-£80

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 6 August 1919: Mrs. Myfanny [sic] Hoskins, Matron, Red Cross Hospital for Officers, 10 Percival Terrace, Brighton.

Myfanwy, Lady Hoskins, née Willliams, the wife of Major-General Sir Arthur Reginald Hoskins, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., initially served with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service before resigning in 1914 upon her marriage. She re-joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve during the Great War and served overseas in France from 6 May to 21 June 1915, being invalided out on the grounds of neuraesthenia. She subsequently served as Matron of the Red Cross Hospital for Officers in Brighton, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross Second Class.

Sold with copied medal roll extract.