Matron Amy Knaggs RRC and Bar
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service
by Robert Simpson
Amy Knaggs was born on April 1866 at Winchester, Hampshire, England. She was one of four daughters to Henry Knaggs and Emma Lawrence Green. They also had two sons. Henry married Emma on 1st July 1858 at Brompton St Barbara Garrison Church in Kent. He was listed as an Assistant Surgeon in the 59th Regiment of Foot. Their first daughter, Edith Alice Constance Knaggs was born at Medway, Kent in England in 1859. They then moved to South Africa, where Ida Florence was born in 1861, Annie in 1863 and William Henry Edward Knaggs was born in 1865 at Cape of Good Hope (Fort Beddie). Before Amy was born, they had moved back to England, and then they moved to Canada, where Marian Louise Knaggs was born in 1869 at Ilse-Anx-Noy. By 1871, they had moved to the Channel Islands, where their last child, Morton Herbert Knaggs was born on 6th January 1871 at Elizabeth Castle in Jersey. In the 1871 census, Henry was listed as the Head of the Army Medical Staff. Emma, who had been born in Barbados in the West Indies in 1837, passed away in April 1889 on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire. The family was apparently in the West Indies (possibly in Jamaica) in 1887 and before that, as they are not listed in the 1881 census. In the 1891 census, Henry and three daughters (including Amy) were residing at 14 Poker Terrace. Henry was listed as a Brigade Surgeon MS (RP), and Amy was listed as a Hospital Nurse (sick). Henry was recorded in Hart’s Army List of 1888, stating he “served with the Bechuanaland Expedition under Sir Charles Warren in 1884-85 in charge of the Base Hospital”. He was also listed under Medical Staff, under Brigade Surgeons ranking as Lieutenant-Colonels and it shows he was an Assistant Surgeon from 22nd April 1858, Surgeon from 1st March 1873, Surgeon Major from 1st April 1873, and Brigade Surgeon from 16th April 1884 and he was stationed in Jamaica. Henry was placed on the retired pay list in 1888 and then it mentions he was sent to Staff on 16th February 1891. In the 1911 Census, Henry was living at 7 Keynsham Avenue, Cheltenham. He was listed as a widower and a Lieutenant-Colonel with R.P.A.M. Staff. Annie and Marion were also living with him. On 13th October 1913, Henry Knaggs passed away at 7 Keynsham Parade and was buried by Reverend H C Noott at Cheltenham Cemetery on the 16th in Section A2, grave 2174. He was listed in the cemetery register as a retired Lieutenant-Colonel of 78 years of age.
Amy began her training for a career in nursing in 1888 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. After completing it in 1891, and having a 3 month break, she was employed at the Leicester Infirmary. On 5th January 1894, she was appointed a Nursing Sister in the Army Nursing Service, with her first appointment at the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. After serving in Devonport between June 1895 and April 1896, she was placed on the Army Nursing Service Reserve after resigning to take up civil employment.
At the beginning of the Boer War, she was mobilised and embarked with the No. 8 Hospital at Southampton on SS Dunraven Castle in January 1900. When arriving at Bloemfontein, the hospital was dispersed and Amy was appointed Nursing Superintendent at No. 5 Stationary Hospital, which was situated in the former Free State Parliament Building. She remained there for 20 months. Amy was entitled to the Queens South Africa Medal as a Nursing Sister with the Army Nursing Service Reserve at No. 5 Stationary Hospital. As a Nursing Sister with the A.N.S. Reserve, Amy was entitled to the Kings South Africa Medal with no clasps. Amy was awarded the RRC 1st Class and MID (by Earl Roberts) during the Boer War whilst matron of Raadzal Hospital in Bloemfontein. The Royal Red Cross was awarded to her by H.M. King Edward VII at St. James’ Palace in December 1901, while she was on leave. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph of 18th December 1901 recorded that “His Majesty the King held an investiture at St. James’ Palace at 12 o’clock today.” “His Majesty conferred the decoration of the Royal Red Cross upon the undermentioned ladies:-“and the list included “Nursing Army Sister Amy Knaggs Army Nursing Service Reserve.” The paper also noted “A number of the foregoing, including some of the ladies, received the South African war medal.” The award was noted in The Nursing Record and Hospital World of 5th October 1901 under war honours for nurses and again on 21st December for the investiture. The American Journal of Nursing also recorded the award, reprinting it from the Nursing Record of 5th October. Afterwards she returned to South Africa and returned to England on 23rd October 1902. She then resigned from the Army Nursing Service Reserve. Amy re-joined the Reserve in March 1905 and was quickly employed, serving at Canterbury from 22nd March 1905 to 10th July 1905, Warley from 11th July 1905 to 7th October 1905 and at Caterham (as Nurse in Charge of the Guards Hospital) from 8th October 1905 to 17th June 1907. Then she left to open her own Training Institute for Nurses in Southport, Lancashire. The 1905 British Army List also shows Amy to be at Hexham Convalescent Home (for the wounded) Northumberland as Matron.
The 1911 census shows Amy as a civilian nurse (listed as hospital trained nurse) in Ormskirk. The census address given was Kenworthy Hydropathic Establishment in Southport.
She joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in February 1915. Amy was appointed the Matron of the Hospital Ship Nevasa which had 660 beds. The Nevasa operated between Egypt and the UK and included 12 trips to Gallipoli. Then, returning to England, she took up an appointment at Devonport on 28th October 1916. Her following appointments were serving as Matron at Sheerness from 17th January 1917, Hurley Camp from 5th November 1917, and at Lord Derby’s War Hospital, Warrington from 29th April 1918 to 30th November 1919. An annual confidential report, dated 22nd April 1918, by her Commanding Officer while at Hursley Camp read “Matron Miss Knaggs has served under me since March 2nd 1918 in which date I took over charge of this hospital. Professional ability good. Administrative capacity both as regards the hospital and the home very good. A fair power of initiative, but I cannot express an opinion as to her ability to instruct & train orderlies. Moral qualifications: – very good temper, average amount of tact and is self-reliant; has common-sense and is punctual. Miss Knaggs is very good to the patients and very popular with them. The nursing staff under her always appeared very happy and contented.” The Administrative Medical office stated “Miss Knaggs has done good work at Hurley. The hospital has improved since her arrival.” to which the Principal Medical Officer concurred. The General Officer Commanding commented “Miss Knaggs is a very good matron.” Another report while at the Lord Derby War Hospital on 8th January 1919 read “Miss Knaggs has acted as Matron at this Hospital since April 1918, & she has impressed me very favourably with regard to the manner in which she has performed her duties. Her general professional ability is of a high order & she exhibits marked administrative capacity & has proved herself capable of controlling and influencing for good in large staff of nurses and orderlies. Moral Qualifications are excellent: she has been zealous, energetic, punctual & thoughtful.” Signed by Alexander Simpson Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC. A Medical Board found her unfit for further service on 17th November 1919, due to a “bad breakdown in health”, so she was invalided from the service. She then retired from service after a 30 year career.
HMT Nevasa in 1913
The London Gazette of 8th April 1919 shows that Miss Amy Knaggs, RRC, Matron QAIMNS (retired), Lord Derby’s War Hospital, Warrington, was awarded a Bar to the Royal Red Cross. “His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to award a Bar to the Royal Red Cross in recognition of valuable nursing services in connection with the War.” “At the Royal Investiture on Thursday, the King conferred the Bar to the Red Cross on Miss Amy Knaggs, Queen Alexandria’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), daughter of the late Lieut.Colonel H. Knaggs, R.A.M.C. of 7 Keynsham Parade, Cheltenham.” The British Journal of Nursing on 28th June 1919, under League News, recorded an annual meeting of the Leicester Royal Infirmary Nurses’ League, where “Miss Amy Knaggs, R.R.C., Matron of the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington, was elected a vice-president”. It also recorded she “gave a short account of her work as Matron on board a hospital ship”. The same journal on 3rd April 1920 recorded the award of the Bar to the RRC for Amy under Honours for Nurses where The King held an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 25th March to confer the award.
Amy was issued her British War and Victory medals on 21st March 1921 with her rank in the QAIMNS roll as Matron. She was also issued the 1914-15 Star in the QAIMNS roll on 4th March 1921, as a Matron. The date of disembarkation was recorded as 4th February 1915 and in the remarks is H.S. “Nevassa”.
Amy’s record of service was recorded in her service file as follows:-
Appointed Nursing Sister, Army Nursing Service, 5th January 1894. Stations. Netley, 5.1.94 to 19.10.94 Woolwich 20.10.94 to 28.4.97 Devonport 29.6.97 to 26.4.98 Resigned to take up civil appointment.
Joined Army Nursing Service Reserve, served in South Africa from 17.2.00 to 23.10.02. 2 years and 8 months.
Re-joined ANSR for home service 22.3.03.
Stationed at Canterbury 22.3.05 to 10.7.05 Warley 11.7.05 to 7.10.05 Chaterham 8.10.05 to 17.6.07.
Re-joined as AQIMNS Temporarily employed from 4.2.15.
Stations HS Nevasa, voyage to Egypt return 4.2.15 to 27.10.16 Devonport 28.10.16 to 16.1.17 Sheerness 17.1.17 to 16.11.17 Hursley Camp 5.11.17 to 28.4.18 Warrington 29.4.18 to 30.11.19.
Passed permanently unfit for further service by Medical Board 17.11.19.
Total service 14 years and 1 month.
On 23rd September 1919, an army form for a Claim for Gratuity on cessation of service for Nurses temporarily employed with QAIMNS was filled out for Matron Amy Knaggs in the QA Res. From 11/11/14 to 4/8/19, who was still serving at the Lord Derby War Hospital at Warrington Lancashire, by the Officer Commanding the Hospital and was approved.
On 20th November 1919, Amy was sent a letter from the QAIMNS. Her address was given as 2 Clarendon Terrace, Marine Parade, Brighton. The letter read “With reference to your examination by a Medical Board on the 17th instant, I am directed to inform you that you were thereby found permanently unfit for further Military Nursing Service, and to request that you will be so good as to inform this Office whether you are desirous of repatriation to Australia, if so desirous, it will be necessary for you to produce evidence as to the date of your arrival in the United Kingdom, from Australia, and you should obtain a certificate from the Company on whose line you travelled, giving the date. This information is necessary as you were re-appointed to the Queens Alexandria’s Imperial Nursing Service Reserve, in this country. I am to add that should you not be desirous of returning to Australia, your engagement with the Nursing Staff of the Army will be terminated, and your case passed to the Ministry of Pensions for consideration. It was signed on behalf of the Matron-in-Chief of the QAIMNS.
Amy wrote a letter to The Secretary of the Pension Department in the War Office in London on 6th April 1921, as Miss A Knaggs, late Matron QAIMNS, Retired. She gave her address as 18 Lansdowne Place, Hove. She wrote “ Sir, I have the honor to ask that my case may considered with reference to the grant of a small pension in respect of my Service, which has been as follows
4¼ years in late Army Nursing Service viz Jan 5. 1894 to April 25 1898 + 2¾ years on active Service in South Africa viz Jan 1900 to Sept 1902 + 2 years at Home Stations Subsequently Late War – From 11.11.1914 to 1.12.1919 As I had retired in 1898, the periods marked were counted Reserve Service, but since in the late war, I was, in common with all required Members of the Service, graded as a retired Member of the Regular Service, I beg to ask that that these former periods may also be permitted to count as regular Service, in which case my total Service would be 14 years of which 7¾ have been war Service. I held the appointment of Matron, all through this last war & was Supt Sister during the South African and have been awarded the R.R.C. and Bar. Since, on rejoining for this late war I gave up a Nursing business which was prospering to all, and would in course of time have allowed me to retire very comfortably, and as I am now past the age where it is possible to obtain any appointment for which by my experience I am well fitted, I think it not unreasonable to ask that my Service may be considered, especially as, owing to a breakdown in health in Aug /19 I was pronounced unfit for further Military Service. This fact prevented me from taking up posts for which I should have been eligible and compelled me to retire from active work. I was granted a small temporary pension for a year on this account & this was renewed on the recommendation of a Medical Board, for a 2nd year and will shortly expire. I should be very glad if this could be supplemented by the grant of a small pension by reason of my Service. I enclose papers which will bear out my Statements.
I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient Servant A. Knaggs late Matron Q.A.I.M.N.S. (Ret)
The reply on 29th April 1921 from J G Ashley for the Secretary of Finance reads “In reply to your letter of the 6th April, I am directed to acquaint you that the rules in the Pay Warrant for the grant of Retired Pay for service apply only to the regular nurses of the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service and Military Families’ Hospitals, who retire voluntarily or are retired compulsorily under the conditions and circumstances stated in the Pay Warrant. They do not apply to other nurses, even if on ceasing to be employed they have had sufficient service to render them eligible for service retired pay had they been members of the regular service. You received gratuity for your services during the War, and your application for a grant of service retired pay cannot be acceded to.”
Her “little sister” Ida urged Amy to write a sketch of her career, which she started on in April 1927. It was titled “Reminiscences of a Nursing Career, as narrated by A. Knaggs, of “Birchland”, Wokingham, Berks.”
She stated that she had a career when it was very unusual for a woman to have a career. In her story she said she was living with her family in the West Indies when she turned 21. After returning to England, her father approved of her going into nursing. The matrons of Barts and St. Mary’s Paddington hospitals in London said she was not old enough to work there, so she too a position in a provincial school at the Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford in 1888. Due to the bad food, she became anaemic and lost appetite and it did not help when her mother died nine months after starting. She had a break for three months and then joined the Leicester Infirmary. Being paid 16 pounds a year there meant she was self-supporting and she stayed there for four years. Amy joined the Army Nursing Service on 4th January 1894. Her first posting was at the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, doing mainly night shifts for two years. “In 1899 the War with South Africa (Boer War) had begun and I sailed in January 1900 from Southampton for Cape Town on “The Dunvegan Castle” with No.8 General Hospital. We proceeded to Bloemfontein O.R.C. which had just surrendered to Lord Roberts. The hospital unit was broken up, and we were sent to various converted buildings in the town, ending at The Raadzaal – The Free State Parliamentary House which had been turned into No.5 Stationary Hospital.” She was there for twenty months as Superintendent. The hospital treated the wounded and the sick (mainly for enteric fever). She was also responsible for Grey College which was for sick nurses. Then she took leave in London, where she was awarded her RRC. “I returned to S.A. during a new phase of the War – and was billeted on one half of a Boer farm (owner had been deported). Finally peace was signed and I returned to England in September 1902.” She returned to England on the Sunda, leaving on 1st September and due at Southampton on the 23rd.
She then went to India as a partner in a new nursing home in Ootacamund. She enjoyed it for a year, but saw “no chance of making much out of the Home” so “my partner and I agreed to part and my half of the money expended on furniture was repaid to me.” After arriving back in England, she returned to the Army Nursing Service Reserve. She had positions in Canterbury and in Warley in Essex. For two years she was in charge of The Guards Hospital in Caterham, then at Nurses Home at Wootton Lodge in Bournemouth for nine months before going to St. George’s Nurses Home, Montpelier Street, London for two years. In March 1911, Amy opened the Nursing Training Institute in Southport, Lancashire as proprietor and manager. She used it to supply fully trained and reliable nurses in Southport and was “pleased to find I had made the reputation of only having nice women and well trained nurses on my staff.” It still runs today.
During WW1 she organised a V.A.D. hospital. From February 1915, she was in charge of the HMHS Nevasa which had been converted to a hospital ship of 660 beds. Initially the ship did cross-channel work, taking the sick and wounded from Le Havre to Southampton. They were then sent to Alexandria to transport back the “terrible sad load of those shot down in that ‘wonderful’ Dardanelles landing.” The staff worked for long periods in a terrible atmosphere due to the septic and putrefying wounds they treated. The ship went to Malta, back to Muden in the Aegean Sea and then to the Dardanelles for 4 months, where they did twelve trips to different beaches, conveying ‘poor mutilated men’. For Amy, it was a “Ghastly and harrowing time.” In March 1916, she spent a few weeks at the 15th Stationary Hospital at Port Said before being in charge of the Orwa El Waska (General Hospital Medical Section) Schools in Alexandria. She was ordered back to England by a Medical Board in July after colitis problems. After recovering, Amy worked at Devonport, and then Sheerness where she was exposed to “nerve racking air raids night after night”. She then went to Hursley until April 1918 when she went to Lord Derby War Hospital which had 3000 beds. It was one of the last hospitals to shut after the war finished due to the constant arrivals. A Medical Board in September 1919 disallowed her to return to service due to ‘bad breakdown in health’, so she retired.
Her nursing career had lasted over 30 years. On 4th March 1921, her WW1 trio were posted to her.
The electoral registers for West Yorkshire, England from 1931 to 1934 contain entries for an Amy Knaggs, living initially at By Ways Lodge, Ledhall Lane, Pannal and then at other addresses, who is living with a Robert and Joanna Knaggs. More information is needed to confirm it is her and how the others are related.
Amy was obviously interested in her family’s heritage as discussed in this letter written to a Mr Pat Purcell in September 1933.
“Dear Mr Purcell, thank you for information on George Knaggs. I would like further to find his relationship to Elizabeth Knaggs of Queen’s County who died in 1740. According to your records Robert Knaggs address was Burren Street, Carlow town is that where he would have had his Apothecary business? Robert served on the Grand Jury for Carlow in 1779, was this service related to administration?
Family records state he collected Cess Taxes. Elizabeth Knaggs was born in Carlow in 1801 and Robert Corbet Knaggs was baptised in 1809. I believe the death record in 1820 that you found for Robert Knaggs is not the same Robert Corbet Knaggs. The family names through marriage the Knaggs became kin with were Eliza Boles, mother of Robert Knaggs 1799. John Brewster, alive in 1730. Elizabeth Bridges, all married in Established Church, (from Family Bible), there is also reference to an Abel Roberts who was a Quaker around this time, some of the others may have joined him. Besides Carlow the family lived at Stradbally and Marybourgh in Queen’s County.
Again much thanks for all your help and suggestions, reply to London address, please use enclosed £1 Sterling to cover post charges,
Amy (Knaggs).”
The copy of the letter also has written “New South Wales, Australia”. Unfortunately it cannot be shown if she was in Australia or England during those years, or what the family tie with Australia was or how it relates to the New South Wales Deceased Estate Files of family members as noted below.
In 1936, the War Office weeded her record file, keeping some and destroying others, and stamped the page “Closed no further minutes must be placed in this file”.
Amy passed away on 3rd August 1937 at Windsor in Berkshire England. Probate records show she was living at The Laurels, Church Road Crowthorne. She died a spinster, leaving effects of over 6100 pounds to Morton Herbert Knaggs, retired Colonel H. M. army and Ethel Maude Knaggs, spinster. There is also a record for her in the index to New South Wales Deceased Estate Files, giving her address as England and that she was a spinster. The record was resealed and granted on 1st September 1939, with the government taking 4% of 2333 pounds. Amy was buried in Crowthorne (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard, in the New North area of the Churchyard, in row 4, position 3, on 7th August.
Her inscription reads:-
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
AMY KNAGGS, R.R.C.
Q.A.I.M.N.S.
WHO DIED 3RD AUGUST 1937 AGED 71.
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY HATH FOLLOWED
HER ALL THE DAYS OF HER LIFE
Her obituary was published in The Times on Friday 6th August 1937. “‘Miss Amy Knaggs, R.R.C. and bar, late Q.A.I.N.S., died at Crowthorne, Berks, on Wednesday after a long illness. She saw active service in South Africa, being for some time matron of Raadzal Hospital in Bloemfontein, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross. In the late war she received a bar to this decoration for conspicuous service in a hospital ship which, after cross-Channel work was sent to Gallipoli. After being invalided home she was appointed matron in charge of the Lord Derby Hospital, Warrington, where she remained until finally invalided out of the service. The funeral will be at St John’s Church, Crowthorne, tomorrow at noon.” The London Times also noted her death “after a long illness heroically borne.” Her family called her “Daisy”.
Edith married Richard Exham in India in 1882. She passed away in 1908 in Plymouth. Richard retired in 1903 as a Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps and had been appointed CMG in 1901. He died 1st February 1915 in Plymouth.
Ida married Edward Frederick Henry McSwiney in 1885 in India. She passed away near Eastbourne in Sussex in 1938. Edward had been born in St. Petersburg in Russia in 1858, was in the Indian Army as a Colonel and had been appointed CB and awarded a DSO. Edward has served with the 3rd Regiment Hydrabad Cavalry and later the 40th South Lancashire Regiment. He died in India in 1907. Apparently after his death, Ida was affected so much by it, that she never fully recovered her metal stability. She reverted in and out of being an adolescent for the rest of her life and had to be looked after by the nanny who helped with their children.
Ida Florence McSwiney
Annie remained a spinster. At some time she moved to Australia after 1901. She was living in Newcastle in the 1903 electoral roll, doing domestic duties. She returned to England for the 1911 census, living with her father. It is possible she moved back to Australia in 1912, living in St. Kilda, and then Ballarat. By the early 1940’s, she had moved back to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire England. She passed away in 1942 in the General Hospital in Cheltenham. She had effects of over 4000 pounds in England and a reference to the Public Trustee was recorded on the Index to Deceased Estate Files in New South Wales.
William followed on from his father, becoming a medical practitioner and a surgeon. The pressure must have been too much for him, as he died in the Manchester Royal Lunatic Asylum in Cheadle Cheshire in 1908, with probate going to his father of over 1700 pounds.
Marian Louisa also remained a spinster. She lived with her father, as recorded in the 1901 and 1911 census in England. At some stage she was in New South Wales. She passed away at 8 Royal parade Cheltenham, also in 1942, where she was living with Annie. Probate of over 3300 pounds, as with her sister, was sent to Lloyds Bank. The Public Trustee was also referenced on her New South Wales deceased index file.
Morton Henry was living with his father’s sister while attending school in the 1881 census at Hastings. He passed Royal Military College in 1890, and a musketry school and transport course in late 1899. In the 1891 census he was a visitor at a house in Gloucestershire, and was a 2nd Lieutenant in the North Staffordshire Regiment, appointed from Royal Military College from 25th March 1891. Hart’s Army List shows he was appointed Lieutenant in 1893, Captain in 1899 and Brevet Major in 1900. It also lists he was with the Army Ordnance Depot. He was also listed as Brevet Major with the North Staffordshire Regiment at Aldershot in 1907. He married Constance Mary Stilwell in 1905 at Hillingdon. He was listed in Hart’s Annual Army List of 1908 with the entry under The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment). It reads “Major Knaggs served with the Dongola Expeditionary Force under Sir Herbert Kitchener in 1896 with 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (British Medal, and Khedive’s Medal with Clasp). Served in South African war in 1899-1902; took part in operations in Orange Free State in Feb. to May 1900, including actions at Karree Siding, Vet River, and Zand River; in Transvaal in May 1900, including actions near Johannesburg; in Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Sept. and Oct 1900; and in Transvaal, 30th Nov. 1900 to 31st May 1902 (mentioned in despatches, Brevet of Major, Medal with two Clasps).” In 1911, he was living with his family at Eltham, Kent.
In WW1 he was a Colonel with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, but appears to have not served overseas and was not entitled to any campaign medals. The London Gazette, of 15th October 1914, shows he had a temporary appointment as a Deputy Assistant Director at the War office from 6th October 1914. He was appointed temporary Assistant Director on 5th January 1915. Constance passed away in 1915. In the King’s Birthday Honours, he was made Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services rendered in connection with the War. He retired in 1920. Morton passed away in 1948 in Dublin, Ireland. His New South Wales deceased index file showed he was living in London, presumably before that. Probate shows he was living at Butlers Arms Hotel in Waterville County Kenny. Effects of nearly 5000 pounds in England went to Betty Constance Yolande Knaggs, a spinster. Morton spoke French and German. He was 6 feet and ½ an inch tall and religion was Church of England, as recorded in his record.
Amy’s medals are Royal Red Cross with Bar, Queen’s South Africa Medal, 1899-1902, 3rd type reverse, no clasp (Nursing Sister A. Knaggs.), King’s South Africa Medal, no clasp (Nursing. Sister. A. Knaggs.), 1914-15 Star (Matron A. Knaggs. Q.A.I.M.N.S.), British War and Victory Medals, 1914-1920 (Matron A. Knaggs). She was also issued a Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service (Reserve) Tippet Badge (No. 184) during her service.
