Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Sister Esther Mahoney, British Red Cross Society

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British Red Cross for War Service Medal 1914-18, with integral top riband bar, in card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-£160

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 6 August 1919: Miss Esther Mahoney, Sister, Red Cross Hospital for Officers, 4 Percival Terrace, Brighton.

Sold with a letter of congratulations to the recipient upon the award of the A.R.R.C. from the Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley, Chairman of the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John, dated 20 August 1919; and a British Red Cross Society Associate’s lapel badge.

Sold additionally with a large archive of letters written during the Great War and immediate post-War period by Elizabeth Jones, who served with the Anglo-Russian Hospital and with the American Red Cross in Poland