The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals 210
A fine Great War group of three awarded to Miss Emily J. Haswell, St. John Ambulance Association and French Flag Nursing Corps, who served as Matron-in-Chief of the British Committee of the French Red Cross in 1918
1914 Star (E. J. Haswell. B.R.C.S &
O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (E. J. Haswell); together with a British Red Crescent Society 1913 medallion with brooch bar; a Bulgarian Red Cross badge; a French Flag Nursing Corps badge; a Great War Paris 1914-16 ‘Médaille Gallieni’; and a Princess Marie Jose of Belgium medallion, the Great War campaign awards nearly extremely fine (8)
£300-£400
Miss Emily Jane Haswell was born in 1875 at Bootle, Lancashire and trained at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, later acting as Sister at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
In response to an appeal from the British Red Crescent Society, she served in Turkey and Bulgaria during the Balkan War of 1913 and in 1914, in response to a request of the Belgian Red Cross Society, she was one of a party sent from London by the St. John Ambulance Association which arrived in Brussels one day ahead of the Germans. She was taken prisoner but permitted to nurse in a hospital for two months before being sent home under the terms of the Geneva Convention - an adventurous journey which of which Miss Haswell was placed in charge. The route chose was via Denmark and Norway where they received great welcomes and boundless hospitality before arriving back in London.
Shortly afterwards she was commanded by Queen Alexandra to Marlborough House, a command which she was unable to obey as she was already back at the front in France as a member of the French Flag Nursing Corps, a corps of British nurses accepted by the French Minister of War to serve French sick and wounded in French military hospitals. Miss Haswell was posted as Matron in charge of the large military hospital annexe at Talence, Bordeaux; later going to Paris to assume the duties of Matron-in-Chief of the British Committee of the French Red Cross, which she held until 1919.
After the war Miss Haswell visited the United States where she was warmly received in the nursing schools and on her return to Europ she worked with the Rockerfeller Foundation in Paris. Then came some years of work in Liverpool, together with her sister, where they successfully managed a busy nursing home and were privileged to work alongside the celebrated surgeon, Sir Robert Trent Jones. A nurse of real international flair, she attended a number of the Congresses of the International Council of Nurses, notably those held in London (1909), Geneva, Paris, Montreal and London (1937) and was elected a Member of the council of the British College of Nursing in 1940. She died in 1946.
211 The British War Medal awarded to Elisabeth M. Stewart, Scottish Churches Huts
British War Medal 1914-20 (E. M. Stewart.) mounted as worn; together with a silver identity bracelet ‘Martin Stewart, Scottish Churches Huts, France, 12-3-17.’, extremely fine, scarce
£60-£80
Elisabeth M. Stewart (presumably the wife or sister of Martin Stewart) served with the Scottish Churches Huts during the Great War on the Western Front from March 1917.
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A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant T. H. Brown, Royal Canadian Dragoons, who saw earlier campaigning with the 7th Dragoon Guards in South Africa and Somaliland
Military Medal, G.V.R. (23 Sjt. T. H. Brown. R. Can: Dns.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4475 Pte. T. Brown. 7/D. Gds:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4475 Pte. T. Brown. 7/D. Gds:); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (4475 Pte. T. Brown 7/D. Gds:); 1914-15 Star (23 Cpl. T. H. Brown. R. Can: Dns:) the number 3 appearing impressed as an inverted 2; British War Medal 1914-20 (23 Sjt. T. H. Brown. R.C.D.) generally nearly very fine (6)
£500-£700 M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.
Thomas Henry Brown was born in 1880 in South Bermondsey, Surrey and attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment at Hertford on 12 September 1898. He was immediately transferred to the 7th Dragoon Guards and served with them during the Boer War in South Africa from February 1900. Remaining in South Africa after the conclusion of hostilities he was posted to Somaliland in January 1903 and served there until July, taking part in the expedition against Muhammed bin Abdullah under Brigadier General W. H. Manning. He returned to England for 9 months and, having extended his service, was reposted to the 5th Dragoon Guards. Embarking for South Africa once more in May 1904, he remained there until December 1908, and returning home was discharged in September 1910 after 12 years with the colours, his conduct being described as exemplary.
Brown served during the Great War with the Royal Canadian Dragoons. He advanced to Sergeant and was awarded the Military Medal. The Royal Canadian Dragoons disembarked in France on 5 May 1915 and fought dismounted in an infantry role as part of Seely's Detachment with the 1st Canadian Division. The regiment remounted on 24 January 1916 and returned to its cavalry role as part of the 1st Canadian Cavalry Brigade, continuing to fight in France and Flanders until the end of the war.
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