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A Great War 'Mesopotamia' A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nurse Isobel M. Guthrie, Queen A...
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A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nurse Isobel M. Guthrie, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Tempy. Nurse I. M. Guthrie.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Nurse I. M. Guthrie.) very fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable service with the British Forces in Mesopotamia.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 7 February 1919. Isobel Muriel Guthrie was born on 20 August 1893 and initially served in Mesopotamia as a Temporary Nurse on a six-month contract with Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India. Awarded the A.R.R.C. and further mentioned by Lieutenant General W. R. Marshall for ‘gallant and distinguished services in the field’, Guthrie was later posted as Nursing Sister to Basrah in Iraq. Here she met and married Captain Harold S. Digges of the Wiltshire Regiment, the ceremony taking place on 10 March 1921. Sold with the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate and copied research which notes that she received her decoration in India in the latter half of 1924.
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A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nurse Isobel M. Guthrie, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Tempy. Nurse I. M. Guthrie.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Nurse I. M. Guthrie.) very fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable service with the British Forces in Mesopotamia.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 7 February 1919. Isobel Muriel Guthrie was born on 20 August 1893 and initially served in Mesopotamia as a Temporary Nurse on a six-month contract with Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India. Awarded the A.R.R.C. and further mentioned by Lieutenant General W. R. Marshall for ‘gallant and distinguished services in the field’, Guthrie was later posted as Nursing Sister to Basrah in Iraq. Here she met and married Captain Harold S. Digges of the Wiltshire Regiment, the ceremony taking place on 10 March 1921. Sold with the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate and copied research which notes that she received her decoration in India in the latter half of 1924.
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