An interesting post-War 'Zanzibar' M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Miss Doris Jones,...

An interesting post-War ‘Zanzibar’ M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Miss Doris Jones, Territorial Army Nursing Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Voluntary Medical Services Medal, silver, with one Additional Award Bar (Sister Doris Jones), mounted for wear; together with the recipient’s T.A.N.S. silver cape badge, nearly extremely fine (8) £260-£300 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 1999 M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1964: ‘Miss Doris Dance Jones. For public services in Zanzibar.’ Doris Dance Jones was born in Portsmouth in 1902 and trained at King’s College Hospital, London from 1924 to 1927. She was employed in various capacities in hospitals in London and the South East before being appointed Sister Tutor and Assistant Matron, Princess Beatrice Hospital, Earl’s Court, on 11 April 1937. Enrolled in the Territorial Army Nursing Service on 21 September 1938 she was called up for service on 20 February 1941 and taken on the strength of No. 33 General Hospital at Peebles being appointed Sister in Charge Theatre. Granted a Commission in the Territorial Army Nursing Service on 17 February 1942 she embarked for the Middle East and disembarked to PAIFORCE in Iraq on 6 September 1942,being attached to No 28 General Hospital for duty with No 9 Ambulance Train. Appointed next as Sister in Charge of Operating Theatre No 33 General Hospital on 14 December 1942, Miss Jones subsequently served at Bandar Abbas, Malta and Syracuse, before returning to the UK on compassionate grounds on 18 September 1944. Posted to various General Hospitals at home she was finally released in February 1946. After the war, Miss Jones went into the Colonial Service being appointed Sister Tutor Zanzibar on 3 July 1958 and held this post until 3 August 1962, leaving Zanzibar prior to the uprisings of 1963. Her time in Zanzibar resulted in her being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in January 1964. Retiring to Kenton, South Devon, Miss Jones took up the voluntary appointment as Nursing Superintendent of the British Red Cross Society Detachment Devon, and was awarded the Voluntary Medical Services Medal in 1965 and a Bar to her Medal in 1970. She died at Dawlish on 11 February 1976, aged 73, and is buried in Kenton Churchyard. Sold with copied service record and other research.