Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Nursing

Lot 2825    SESSION 10 (11.30AM WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER)    Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Nursing (1

Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au

GROUP OF SEVEN: Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E. Civil, 2nd type)(lady); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star with 8th Army clasp; Italy Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; British War Medal 1939-45; New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. All medals un-named. Very fine.

Together with Australian Red Cross Society Distinguished Service Award engraved to Mollie J. Scott 8.5.68; Australian Red Cross Society Twenty Years Service Medal
with two five year bars, engraved to Miss M.Scott E3185;
Life member badge of the NSW Division of the Australian Red
Cross Society; Australian Red Cross Society NSW Council
badge; Australian Red Cross members badge (2); Original
M.B.E. Royal Mint box complete with miniature medal; three
sets of miniature campaign medals and ribbon bars; Royal
Warrant signed by Queen Elizabeth II; O.B.E. citation;
Government House Sydney investiture letter dated 2 August
1973; letter of reply from Miss Scott dated 21 August 1973;
book 'The Chapel of the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire' by Frederic Hood (1973); booklet 'Statutes of The
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire' 1970; booklet
'The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Service of
Dedication in St'Pauls Cathedral (London), Tuesday 17 May
1988; Letter and receipt for claimed medals from NZ Defence
Department 1964; Life Members badge and Council badge of
the BNA N.S.W. branch; Royal Empire Society Fellows badge;
NZ Returned Services Association badge.

Attributed to Matron Mollie Johnstone Scott. Citation from Government House, Sydney, dated 2nd June 1973 reads: 'For services to medicine. Miss Scott has been Matron of the Victor Maxwell Nursery for Blind Babies and Pre-School Children since 1957, and has also worked for the Australian Red Cross Society, the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association, and the Karitane Mothercraft Association'.

Mollie Johnstone Scott was born in Auckland, NZ in 1909, daughter of Louis Archibald Scott and Biddy Scott. She gained her nursing degree in 1932 in Nelson, NZ. Her military service was with No.3 New Zealand General Hospital, serving in Egypt, Syria, Italy, and England. In 1945 she set up the New Zealand Military Repatriation Hospital in Kent, UK. She served with the Red Cross for 28 years and was President of the Woollahra Darling Point, NSW Branch from 1956-57 and with the NSW Bush Nursing Service for 23 years. From 1957-76 she was Matron of the Victor Maxwell Nursery for Blind Babies and Pre-school Children. She served with several NSW state and national organisations where she made major contributions to planning and restructuring.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 86 (lot 4044).