A Great War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Nurse Lilian M. Blackburn, South African Military Nursing Service
Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class, G.V.R., silver and enamel, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; British War Medal 1914-20 (Nurse. L. M. Blackburn.)
Condition about extremely fine
Footnote
A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919:
‘In recognition of valuable services within the Union of South Africa in connection with the War.’
Miss Lilian Mary Blackburn was born in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, in 1881 and enrolled as a Probationer Nurse in the South African Military Nursing Service at Simon’s Town on 7 August 1917. Appointed an Associate of the Royal Red Cross, she resigned on 27 December 1918.
