WW1 Trio to Nursing Sister of the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.

A wonderful Great War medal trio comprising of the 1914/15 star named to S/Nurse A. M. Allen. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. the British War and Victory medal to Sister. A. M. Allen.
Before war broke out in the august 1914 Miss Alice Melona Allan was working as a staff nurse at the King Edward VII Hospital in Cardiff Wales, she volunteered for the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Reserve and arrived at the training hospital in Aldershot on 8th August 1914, she served here for just under a year before being recommended for overseas service by her matron.
Her first post was Egypt in the July of 1916 and then moved to the Citadel Hospital Cairo, although this was once the Palace of Mahomet Ali, the wards consisted of large open pavilions or halls at the head of wide marble staircases, which was impossible to keep either comfortably warm, or comfortably cool and on the whole conditions for nursing staff were poor. At the end of that year, December 1916, now at the rank of acting Sister, she was transferred once again, this time to the Valletta Hospital in Malta; her transfer was due to the valuable work she had already accomplished and her willingness to serve which was noted on her service record.
The Valletta Hospital was in two parts, the Valletta Station Hospital served as a sorting base for the wounded arriving in the hospital ships prior to their being transferred to the other hospitals and camps scattered over the Islands; the other Valletta Hospital was reserved for dangerously ill cases that could not be safely moved and so the casualty rate was very high, it must have taken a very special type of person to work here, the loss and sorrow must have been unbearable. Both hospitals took the wounded from hospital ships from the Gallipoli and Salonika campaigns and now Sister Allen, worked in either until the end of the war and arrived back on British soil on 5th July 1919. It is not known what happened to her from here, although she still appears on the state nurses register up to 1937. This part of her history and before the war needs research.
All three medals come in very good condition; however there are signs these were mounted and worn at one time, as there are contact marks mainly to the BWM from the point of the star. the naming on the victory medal is a little different than the naming on the BWM, it seems a little heavier but in my experience, this is not terribly unusual.
The medals come with Sister Allen’s service papers and old hand written copy of her medal index card.
A superb nursing officers group to a long serving nurse, a fabulous lot for investment and research and now come mounted on card for easy and safe storage with her papers in a plastic file.

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