Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Chief Nursing Officer Noreen Hamilton-Wedderburn, St. John Ambulance Brigade

The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with one Additional Award Bar (45491. Chief/Nsg/Off. Hamilton-Wedderburn. Hqs. S.J.A.B. 1951.) very fine (4) £80-£100

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

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Noreen Hamilton-Wedderburn was born in Hanover Square, London, on 29 January 1913, the second daughter of Captain Henry Hamilton-Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Noted in the Leicester Daily Mercury of 16 June 1952 as Chief Nursing Officer of the St John Ambulance Association in London, she married Colonial Diplomat John Almeric de Courcy Hamilton in June 1960, and died in Fulham on 24 February 1990.