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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 275

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister E. L. Earle, Territorial Force Nursing Service

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (Sister E. L. Earle.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Sister E. L. Earle. T.F.N.S.), good very fine (4)

A.R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917.

Approximately 277 Territorial Force War Medals were awarded to the Territorial Force Nursing Service.

Ellen Louisa Earle was born in Hursley, Hampshire and enrolled into the Territorial Army Nursing Service on 24 March 1909. She was called up for service in the Great War on the 13 August 1914 and was posted to the 5th Southern General Hospital, Portsmouth. Promoted to Sister on the 31 March 1916 she entered the war in France from 4 May 1917.

Earle was invested with the A.R.R.C. by The King at Buckingham Palace on 9 March 1918. She was then posted to No. 36 Casualty Clearing Station between 25 March-27 April 1918. Released on 6 June 1919 she resided at Basing House, Devizes Road, Salisbury and died in Plymouth, Devon in December 1946; sold together with a quanity of copied research including a letter from Matron-in-Chief E. Maud McCarthy T.A.N.S. confirming her name appeared on the medal roll of the 5th Southern General Hospital for the three campaign medals.

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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£1100