Three: Orderly Ethel M. Moir, French Red Cross and Scottish Women's Hospital, who was...

Three: Orderly Ethel M. Moir, French Red Cross and Scottish Women’s Hospital, who was awarded the Serbian Medal for Zeal, and recorded her wartime experiences in her diaries, large parts of which survive and have been published British War and Victory Medals (E. Moir.) in flattened named card box of issue; Serbia, Kingdom, Medal for Zeal, First Class in Gold, bronze-gilt, unnamed, extremely fine (3) £140-£180 --- Ethel Mary Moir was born in British Honduras in 1884 and enlisted with Dr. Elsie Inglis’s unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospital as a Nursing Orderly at Inverness. She served with them during the Great War initially in Russia, arriving at Archangel in September 1916; whilst en route to Archangel she commenced recording her experiences in her diaries and scrapbook which she maintained for the next three years. Her service in Russia took her to Batcheridza, Moscow, Odessa and Medgidia. In January 1917 Miss Moir returned to Scotland and in February 1918 she re-embarked for a second tour of service with the Scottish Women’s Hospital, this time in Salonica where she served until the cessation of hostilities, and for her services was awarded the Serbian medal for Zeal. She died in 1973. Miss Moir’s complete diaries are held by Edinburgh City Libraries; large parts of her diary (including many photographs) have been transcribed and published on the internet by Edinburgh City Libraries in a series called “There’s a Long Long Trail A-Winding”. Sold with the original award document for the Serbian Medal for Zeal; and copied research.