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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 104

A rare 'Egypt and Sudan 1885' Royal Red Cross group of three awarded to Nursing Sister J. C. M. Barker, Military Nursing Establishment

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (Nursing Sister, M. Barker.); Khedive's Star 1884-6, bronze, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3)

Ex-Jack Webb Collection, DNW, 2008.

Approximately 38 Egypt and Sudan Medals to the Nurses, of which just a handful earned the clasp 'The Nile 1884-85'. At least five of the Medals are known to reside in Museums across the world.

R.R.C. London Gazette 23 October 1885.

Jane Marcia Caroline Barker was born on 30 March 1857 and entered the Military Nursing Establishment on 1 October 1882 and joined the Guards' Hospital, London. She embarked for Egypt on 8 October 1884 and arrived in theatre on 21 October 1884. For her fine work during the campaign on The Nile, she was commended for her work in July 1885 and put forward for the R.R.C. by the Director General, an award that was approved and sent to the General Officer Commanding for its award in Egypt. She proceeded from Ramleh to Cairo in September 1885 and thence to Aswan in June 1886. Barker went back to England on sick leave in July 1886 and resigned her appointment in September 1886. She married Major (later Brigadier-General) Capel Molyneux Brunker of the Lancashire Fusiliers in April 1902 and died at Fort Brockhurst, Gosport on 21 January 1913; sold together with copied research.

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£4,500

Starting price
£3800