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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 361

A post-War M.B.E., 1945 R.R.C. group of nine awarded to Matron V. M. Rees, Indian Military Nursing Service and later Superintendent of Nursing Services for East Bengal

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type Badge, silver; Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, officially dated '1945'; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (N-Sister V. M. Rees.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, good very fine (9)

M.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1956 (Superintendent of Nursing Services for East Bengal).

R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1946.

Violet Mildred Rees was born on 17 June 1888 (perhaps in New Zealand), and was first appointed as a Nurse in 1915. Having served in Waziristan, she was advanced Matron in the Indian Medical Service on 1 October 1926. Seeing further service during the Second World War, she returned to East Bengal in the 1950s and died in Surrey on 8 March 1984; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£650