Rare WW1 ARRC & More to Matron & Lady Superintendent BRCS.

A rare WW1 Associates Royal Red Cross to Matron & Lady Superintendent Annie Henderson Young. Also included is her WW1 Red Cross service medal, silver and enamel student nurses badge, BRCS Roll of Honour bar with its original certificate, BRCS for service badge, various bronze and sterling silver early NSPCC medals, plus a lot of original certificates, paperwork and photographs.
Although this woman needs thorough research, there is enough paperwork and certificates here to get a very good start.
In short, Annie Henderson Young (nee Walters) served with the British Red Cross Society during WW1, as Matron then Lady Superintendent from May 1915 to February 1919 at the Braintree Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital Essex. During the war, she married Captain KeithYoung of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who served in France throughout the war. The ARRC was awarded to her by King George V at Buckingham Palace on the 13th April 1918 and she was instructed to attend Queen Alexandra for tea at Marlborough House afterwards, this was a great honour to be bestowed. She was awarded a place on the BRCS Roll of Honour on 1st April 1920.
The documentation which accompanies this medal is; her Nursing qualification certificate from the Royal Infirmary Sheffield, this is dated 1905. The official BRCS directors report on which she is named, naming the persons to be awarded the ARRC and other awards, the telegram informing her of her award of the ARRC, other paperwork relating to this award, railway warrant etc. her invitation to Buckingham Palace and her invitation to Marlborough House. Copy newspaper cuttings relating to her and her award, one, she is pictured. And lastly some original photographs of Annie including a couple of her in later life. Also there is a certificate relating to the International health Exhibition named to her husband Keith Young.
After the war, it is believed she became one of the original members of the fledgling NSPCC, then the Children’s League of Pity. She was awarded several medals from this organisation, which are included.
The ARRC is in mint condition and in its case of issue and comes with its original sterling silver and enamel miniature. All of the other medals and badges are also in excellent condition and it looks like she did not wear any of them very much. The original paperwork is in good condition and has been stored well over the years.
A rare lot to a truly remarkable woman who dedicated her life to the care of the sick and later to children, tending the sick and wounded during the great war to an extent that was noticed, to win her the ARRC while serving as a high ranking officer of the British Red Cross.

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