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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 136

The Great War A.R.R.C. Attributed to Lady Superintendent A.H. Young, Voluntary Aid Detachment
Royal Red Cross, G.V.R., Second Class (A.R.R.C.) Badge, silver and enamel, good very fine, with bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue, with the following related documents &c.:
- Telegram to the recipient from the Lord Chamberlain, requesting her attendance at a Buckingham Palace Investiture, dated 10.4.1918, together with two War Office letters regarding the Investiture
- Letter to the recipient from the War Office inviting her to a reception with H.M. Queen Alexandra at Marlborough House, dated 10.4.1913
- The recipient's Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, Hospital Nurse Certificate, dated 4.1.1905
- British Red Cross Society Honourable Service Certificate, named to Annie Henderson Young, and dated 1.4.1920
- British Red Cross Society (Essex Branch) County Director's Report, listing the award of the A.R.R.C.
- Queen Alexandra enclosure letter for the British Red Cross Society Medal, on Marlborough House writing paper, dated May 1921
- Queen Alexandra 'Angel of Pity' Nurses' Scroll
- Three photographic images of the recipient

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 24.10.1917 Mrs. Annie Henderson Young, Supt. & Matron, Aux. Hpl., Braintree, Essex
'In recognition of valuable service in connection with the War.'

Lady Superintendent Annie Henderson Young, A.R.R.C., née Walters, the wife of Captain H.G.D. Young, Royal Army Medical Corps; served during the Great War as Superintendent and Matron at Braintree Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital; received the A.R.R.C. at Buckingham Palace, 13.4.1918; died, 19.10.1960.

For the O.B.E. group of medals to Dr. K.D. Young see Lot 146

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