Orders, Decorations and Medals

An O.B.E. Medal attributed to Nurse L. Cope, Factory Nursing Staff

Medal of the Order of the British Empire, (Civil), unnamed, in John Pinches, London case of issue, extremely fine £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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O.B.E. Medal London Gazette 14 June 1918. ‘Cope, Nurse Lily, Factory Nursing Staff. Behaved with great courage on the occasion of a severe fire and explosion at a national filling factory, performing her duties quietly and without regard to personal safety’.

Sold with original testimonial scroll from The Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, dated 13 February 1919, to ‘Nurse Lily Cope, of the Factory Nursing Staff, in recognition of her courageous and resourceful conduct in assisting to rescue William Topping on the occasion of the Fire and Explosion at the National Filling Factory, Morcambe, on the 1st October, 1917’.

National Filling Factories were munition factories run by the Ministry of Munitions