Pair: Major Ann H. Lively, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Lt. A. H. Lively. Q.A.R.A.N.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Capt. A. H. Lively. QARANC.) nearly extremely fine (2) £260-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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Ann Hudson Lively was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 24 March 1932 and trained as a nurse at the High Wycombe and District Group Training School. Registered as SRN No. 230359 on 29 November 1955, she was granted a short-service commission in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps on 1 February 1956. Promoted Temporary Captain whilst on attachment to the Ghanaian Armer Forces, she was raised Major on 1 February 1968.

Awarded the GSM with clasp Malaya for service in the Far East, Lively was later posted on 11 June 1969 to the Military Hospital at Terendak in Malaysia. Retired to pension on 17 October 1972, she died at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 9 April 2008.

Sold with the recipient’s original silver Q.A.R.A.N.C. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1950, and two original letters from the M.O.D., the first a letter of congratulations to Captain Lively at Cambridge Military Hospital for passing her examination to Major, dated 16 December 1966, the second confirming award of the GSM 1962-2007.