GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY 1023
An M.B.E., A.R.R.C. group of seven awarded to Matron Eliza May Ball, Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, late Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
THEMOST EXCELLENTORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver, mounted ‘bow and tails’, in Royal Mint case of issue; Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.),
G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, on bow ribbon, in Garrard, London case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse M. E. Ball); DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS, unnamed; CORONATION 1937, unnamed, on bow ribbon, in card box of issue, extremely fine (7)
£600-700
M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1948. ‘Acting Matron May Eliza Ball, A.R.R.C. (5015), Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service.’
A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1941. ‘Senior Sister, Miss Mary (sic) Eliza Ball.’
Sister May Eliza Ball, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. entered the Italian theatre of war on 12 March 1918. She gained registration from the General Nursing Council in October 1922. Staff Nurse Ball transferred from the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. to the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. in 1923 (London Gazette 4 September 1923). Advanced to Senior Sister on 1 October 1935. Awarded the A.R.R.C. early on in the war; she was further rewarded with the M.B.E. as an Acting Matron in the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. in the New Years Honours of 1948.
With a number of original papers and documents including: recipient’s Certificate of the General Nursing Council of England and Wales, dated 27 October 1922; bestowal document for the M.B.E., dated 1 January 1948, with associated letter, in envelope addressed to ‘Miss M. E. Ball, M.B.E., A.R.R.C., Royal Air Force Hospital, Halton, Aylesbury, Bucks.’; award certificate for the Coronation Medal 1937, named to Senior Sister Miss May E. Ball’; Certificate of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics - for passing the teachers’ examination, dated 15 March 1935; a hardback copy of The Form and Order of the Service .... of Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 12 May 1937; Admittance Ticket for the Coronation 1937, named to ‘Sister Miss May E. Ball’; letters (2) from the Air Ministry re her retirement, dated 1948 and 1950; registered envelope addressed to ‘Miss M. Ball, Neville Cottage, Houghton Road, St. Ives, Nr. Huntingdon’. Also with an embroidered arm band and a quantity of copied research.
1024
An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Private H. V. Cruse, Canadian Army Medical Corps
THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, unnamed, edge bruise; BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (860052 Pte., C.A.M.C.); CANADIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE MEDAL, no clasp; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, these unnamed; CANADIAN CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRE’SMEDAL, 1 clasp, ‘Labor Omnia Vincit’, silver emblem on ribbon, reverse of medal inscribed, ‘H. V. Cruse’, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6)
£100-140
Harold Victor Cruse was born in London, England on 6 June 1890. A Farmer by occupation and a member of the 179th Cameron Highlanders of Canada, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 17 May 1916. He served with the C.A.M.C. in France from December 1917, serving with the 8th Canadian Stationary Hospital. He was discharged on 3 June 1919.
Cruse, then employed as a Cashier, enlisted once more, at Saskatoon on 8 September 1942. He served with the 36th Company Veterans Guard of Canada and was discharged on 4 May 1944.
Harold and his wife Sarah Lydia Cruse, started the first St. John’s Ambulance branch in Saskatoon when they moved there after the Second World War. As a Commissionaire, he was assigned to the Courthouse at Saskatoon. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers.
1025
A Great War Distinguished Service Cross awarded to Captain F. T. Skellern, Mercantile Marine
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed (Capt. F. T. Skellern, Dec. 19th 1917); together with a fine oval portrait miniature of the recipient in uniform wearing D.S.C. ribbon, 45 x 35 mm, signed N. B. Simon, good very fine (2)
£600-700
D.S.C. London Gazette 30 November, 1917: Captain Francis Thomas Skellern, Mercantile Marine ‘in recognition of zeal and devotion to duty shown in carrying on the trade of the country during the war.’
Skellern was Master of S.S. Horseferry which, on 17 August, 1917, was attacked by a U Boat in the North Sea. Skellern’s gunfire hit and damaged the U Boat.
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