Lot 2117

Description

Group of Eight: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal 1914-18, Victory Medal 1914-19, 3/4543 Capt.A.E.L.Bennet, N.Z.E.F; British War Medal 1914-18, Victory Medal 1914-18, A.L. Bennett. Coronation Medal 1937; Serbia, third Order of St.Sava, neck badge; Royal Red Cross of Serbia, the first five impressed, the last three unnamed. Very fine - extremely fine, a very rare group.

Together with a Navy League Special Service Medal, named to Dr Agnes Bennet OBE, Six Scottish Medical Shoulder Charges, British Medical Association 1931 badges (2), P.A.H. trained Nurses reunion Medal, various miscellaneous badges (6). Silk Serbian flag and sash, W.W.S.A. arm band, trench art tumbler, engraved 'Bennet 9.22.1917' a copy of the book 'Doctor Agnes Bennett' plus 18 items of paperwork relating to Doctor Bennet, including letters, photo birth certificate, newspaper cuttings and some research, a Victory medal named 'Sister F.A.Bennett'. Dr. Agnes Bennett, B.Sc (Sydney) M.D. (Edinburgh), proceeded overseas on the outbreak of the Great war. She enlisted as a medical officer of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt and remained there until the first stationary hospital was established at Pont de Koubbeh. Subsequently she joined the district medical service of the British Army in Egypt, working in infectious diseases hospitals until the work ceased at cairo; she then proceeded to England, and shortly afterwards went out to Serbia in charge of one of the units of Scottish Women's hospitals. Dr. Bennet was decorated for distinguished services with the Royal Red Cross of Serbia, and Third order of St. Sava of Serbia. The crown Prince of Serbia (afterwards King Alexander, who was assasinated at Marseilles) was a frequent visitor to the hospital. Dr. Bennett was invalided from this hospital, and afterwards acted as medical officer at Netley unit until the end of the war.