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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 698

A scarce Great War Q.A.I.M.N.S. group of four awarded to Sister J. Todd, an early member of the B.E.F. who was mentioned in dispatches for her work on the Western Front; notably Todd then served aboard H.M.H.S. Suntemple in North Russia

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class, G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914 Star (S. Nurse J. Todd. Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Sister J. Todd.), good very fine, scarce (4)

Royal Red Cross London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Jean Todd was born at Pineholme, Silloth, Cumberland in December 1887. She arrived in France with the B.E.F. on 14 August 1914, serving at No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station as a Sister in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Her Royal Red Cross Decoration was bestowed by King George V at Buckingham Palace as part of the 1918 New Year's Honours, and she was mentioned in dispatches for her services (London Gazette, 8 July 1919). She served aboard H.M.H.S. Suntemple in the North Russia campaign, and was photographed on her deck (illustrated - centre row, fourth from left). At Hampstead on 3 November 1923 she married Arthur Lyon Dobree, fifth son of Reverend J. B. Dobree, Rector of West Tilbury. She retired from nursing two weeks later. Todd died at Wigton, Cumbria in 1956, aged 76. She was buried alongside her husband at St. James's Church, West Tilbury; sold with copied MIC.



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