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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 344

A Great War Greek Medal of Military Merit group of three awarded to Sister M. Carr, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (Sister M. Carr); Greece, Kingdom, Medal for Military Merit 1916-1917, 4th class, bronze, and her Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Reserve, silver cape badge, unnamed, hallmarks for B. H. Joseph & Co., Birmingham 1917, extremely fine (4)

Greek Medal for Military Merit London Gazette 26 November 1919.

Mima Carr was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1875. Training as a hospital nurse, she passed examinations to be admitted onto the Central Midwives Board on 9 March 1912. Carr worked at the Chester Benevolent Institution before serving at St. John's Auxiliary Hospital Porthcawl, near Cardiff, from 20 November 1915. Carr represented Porthcawl on the Joint War Committee. She entered the Italian theatre with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 16 January 1918, embarking for Salonika on 9 April and serving there until her discharge on 10 April 1919. Matron F. Macpherson wrote of Carr at Salonika:

'As a sister, administrative abilities very good. Thoroughly capable and reliable as a nurse and devoted to her profession. [She] is a hard worker, and kind to her patients.'

Carr lived at 11 Grant Street, Jarrow upon Tyne and died in South Shields in December 1954; sold with an unnamed Junior Missionary Association Cross, three blue cloth chevrons, copied MIC and research.

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£520