Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Charge Sister Ethel T. Smith, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, later New Zealand Army Nursing Service

British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse E. T. Smith.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, N.W. Persia (S. Nurse E. T. Smith. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); War Medal 1939-45; New Zealand War Service Medal, very fine (5) £240-£280

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

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Ethel ‘Effie’ Tinkler Smith was born on 21 December 1890 and took her nursing studies at the Jessop Hospital for Women in Sheffield. She served during the Great War with the Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve from 1 January 1914 to 31 December 1920, and later returned to military service during the Second World War as Charge Sister with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. Recorded on the New Zealand Register of Maternity Nurses as a resident of 3 Camden Street, Feilding, she died on 23 May 1966.