Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sister Emmie E. R. Newcomb, Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Sister E. E. R. Newcomb. P.M.R.A.F.N.S.) light contact marks, good very fine, rare (3) £280-£320

Emmie Edith Ruth Newcomb was born in Epping, Essex, in 1921, and trained at the Middlesex Hospital, London, from 1939 to 1942, Registering as a Nurse in London on 28 May 1943. She was commissioned Sister in Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service Reserve on 1 May 1945, and served with this unit in post-War Palestine.