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An extremely rare Quetta earthquake R.R.C. pair awarded to Staff Nurse G. Lincoln, Indian Military Nursing Service
ROYAL RED CROSS, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, on original Lady’s bow for wearing; INDIA GENERAL
SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (S.-Nurse G. Lincoin, I.M.N.S.), note surname spelling, extremely
fine (2) £1200-1500
One of just five appointments to the R.R.C. in respect of the Quetta earthquake.
R.R.C. London Gazette 19 November 1935:
‘For services rendered in connection with the recent earthquake in Baluchistan.’
Georgina Lincoln was actually serving as a Staff Nurse at the British Military
Hospital in Quetta at the time of the disaster. Situated in the north-west of the
Indian Sub-continent, Quetta was first established as a base by Sir Robert
Sandeman in the late 1870s, and by the 1930s was an important military centre
for conducting operations on the North West Frontier. However, on 31 May
1935, the city was completely destroyed by one of the world’s worst ever
earthquakes, a disaster which resulted in some 35,000 casualties - all surviving
military and nursing personnel were quickly seconded for rescue work, the
climate and the extensive damage making their task a most harrowing one.
Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including letters of
congratulation on the award of the R.R.C. (3), including one from the Principal
Matron, Q.A.I.M.N.S. (‘You must have had a terrible time there ... ’), and the
Senior Officer of the Medical Directorate, G.H.Q., India; together with a period
photograph of Miss Lincoln being invested with her award by Lieutenant-General
Sir W. W. Pitt-Taylor, the G.O.C. of Western Command (India), on 3 May 1936;
a related newspaper cutting, and an official movement order for ‘Sister (Mrs.) G.
Cox, I.M.N.S.’, dated 4 October 1946, by which date she had married an Indian
Army officer.
Miss Lincoln is invested with her R.R.C. by the G.O.
C. Western Command (India) in May 1936
600
A Second World War Norway 1940 operations D.S.C. attributed to Sub. Lieutenant W. A. George, Royal Naval
Reserve
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1940’, hallmarks for London 1939, in its Garrard & Co. case
of issue, extremely fine £600-700
D.S.C. London Gazette 26 September 1940:
‘For services in Norway.’
The original recommendation states:
‘On 8 May 1940, being landed with a party from the Northern Spray to examine a German troop-carrier down in Efjordan, the party
was surprised and attacked by some 30 Germans, the late occupants of the plane, with machine-guns and grenades. After all their
ammunition was expended, the party surrendered, except Skipper George, who, eluding his captors, made his way to the wrecked
plane, in which he spent the night. He collected all books and papers he thought might be of value and, launching the india-rubber
boat, crossed the fjord and eventually rejoined his ship.’
William Arthur George received his D.S.C. at a Buckingham Palace investiture held on 3 February 1942; sold with a photocopied
image of a wartime family photograph, including George in R.N.R. officer’s uniform, the caption erroneously giving his first name as
‘Wilfred’ - only one R.N.R. officer received the D.S.C. in 1940, namely the above cited William Arthur George.
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