A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Mabel C. Carmichael-Walker,...

A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Mabel C. Carmichael-Walker, a civilian attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, who served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded at Wimereux, near Boulogne

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband; British War Medal 1914-20 (M. C. Carmichael-Walker.); Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze and enamel, nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240

Footnote
O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920: Miss Mabel Caroline Walker, Founder of the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel, York.

Mabel Caroline Carmichael-Walker was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on 2 August 1865, the daughter of Colonel Sir George Walker, K.C.B. From 1897 to 1908 she served as Honorary Superintendent of the Institutes for Soldiers in South Africa, and in 1908 founded the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel at Fulford, York, of which Field Marshal the Lord Roberts was President. She served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded in Wimereux, near Boulogne, France, attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, from December 1914 to June 1917 (not entitled to either a 1914-15 Star or a Victory Medal), and upon returning to York she enlarged the Institute and opened a hostel-annexe for the relatives of the wounded and sick soldiers. For her services she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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