Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups

Lot 5202    Session 19 (4:30pm Friday)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups

Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,700

PAIR TO NURSE: British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. S-Nurse E.Maggs. A.I.F. Both medals impressed. Swing mounted good very fine.

Together with King George V & Queen Mary 1914-1918 tribute medal - In Gratitude To Our Nurses From The Citizens Of Bombay 23rd November 1918, in gilt (32mm), with 9ct gold suspender brooch bar; riband bar; AANS embroidered sleeve badge; Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), numbered 105836; button badge (KC) for Australian Red Cross Society (B.R.C.S.) Victorian Junior Division; Scotch College Melbourne hat badge in gilt, reverse numbered 1237; SRN (State Registered Nursing) Victoria enamel and gilt badge, reverse inscribed, '1487/3.8.25/M.B.J.Maggs (relationship to Eliza unknown).

Eliza Maggs, nurse, age 43, born at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; Enl.27Jul1917 for AIF while already a member of AANS; Emb.06Sep1917; posted to Victoria War Hospital, Bombay, India; Trf to Hospital Ship Varela 13Jun1918; Trf to Gerard Freeman Thomas Hospital, Bombay 13Dec1918; RTA 15Jan1919; Disch.22Mar1919.

With research.