A good Royal Red Cross 2nd Class, Associate, A.R.R.C. group awarded to Assistant Nurse Jeannie Strickland of the War Hospital, Huddersfield in the London Gazette of 31st July 1919, she would later also work at the Magdalen Hospital, Winchester before being discharged on 27th October 1919 and later would have seen service during the Second World War earning her the Defence Medal.
Royal Red Cross 2nd Class, Associate, A.R.R.C., GVR issue, silver and enamel, housed in its Garrard & Co fitted presentation case. Circa Great War period issue; British Red Cross Society War Service Medal 1914-1918, complete with top brooch bar, unnamed as issued. Defence Medal; The St. John Ambulance Association member Cross in bronze, with bars 1914 and 1915, the reverse engraved ‘163821 JEANNIE STRICKLAND.’
Condition: Good Very Fine
Jane Annie Strickland was born in Snaith, Yorkshire in 1876. She was a domestic worker and ladies help, and enlisted into the Voluntary Aid Detachment on 9th October 1915 as an Assistant Nurse when war broke out. She was then residing at Cleveland Road, Huddersfield. She served in the War Hospital, Huddersfield as an Assistant Nurse and was awarded a Royal Red Cross 2nd Class in the London Gazette of 31st July 1919.
She was transferred from the War Hospital at Huddersfield on 4th September 1919 and would subsequently work at the Magdalen Hospital, Winchester until her discharge on 27th October 1919. She appears to have then returned to domestic duties and must have undertaken some nursing services in the Second World War earning her the Defence Medal.
She died on 23rd March 1947 in Huddersfield.
