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A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Violet S. Newman, Queen Alexandra's Imp...
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A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Violet S. Newman, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914 Star, with clasp (Sister V. S. Newman, Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister V. S. Newman) very fine and better (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007. A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916: ‘In recognition of valuable services in connection with the war’. Violet Sherston Newman was born in Hawkridge, near Dulverton, Somerset, on 14 June 1882, the daughter of the Rector of Hawkridge. Educated at home, she trained for nursing at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital from 1903 to 1907. She was then employed as Staff Nurse at Corsham Memorial Hospital, Kingswood, Bristol, from November 1907 to September 1908; next, as a Theatre and Outpatient Sister at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, from September 1908 to July 1909; and then, after a period of private nursing between August 1909 and April 1910, she was a Sister at the Gordon Hospital, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London. In July 1910 she entered Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, serving at Woolwich and Chatham. She served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 7th General Hospital from 8 August 1914, and later served in the Mesopotamian theatre of War. She resigned from the service on her marriage to Colonel Kinch, R.E. in June 1919.
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A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Violet S. Newman, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914 Star, with clasp (Sister V. S. Newman, Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister V. S. Newman) very fine and better (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007. A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916: ‘In recognition of valuable services in connection with the war’. Violet Sherston Newman was born in Hawkridge, near Dulverton, Somerset, on 14 June 1882, the daughter of the Rector of Hawkridge. Educated at home, she trained for nursing at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital from 1903 to 1907. She was then employed as Staff Nurse at Corsham Memorial Hospital, Kingswood, Bristol, from November 1907 to September 1908; next, as a Theatre and Outpatient Sister at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, from September 1908 to July 1909; and then, after a period of private nursing between August 1909 and April 1910, she was a Sister at the Gordon Hospital, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London. In July 1910 she entered Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, serving at Woolwich and Chatham. She served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 7th General Hospital from 8 August 1914, and later served in the Mesopotamian theatre of War. She resigned from the service on her marriage to Colonel Kinch, R.E. in June 1919.
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