Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sister Dorothy Duncan, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Sister D Duncan. Q.A.I.M.N.S.) rank officially corrected; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine (2) £70-£90

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

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Dorothy Duncan was born on 3 July 1894 and educated at Forfar Academy. She trained as a nurse at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and was selected to join Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 9 August 1926. Appointed Staff Nurse, she served in Nowshera, Muree and Rawalpindi, completing her first tour of India in January 1933 at Quetta. Returned home to Scotland, she resigned from the service on 3 March 1937 upon marriage to Major John Gordon MacGeorge of the Royal Artillery, but later returned as Sister from 8 June 1942 until the cessation of hostilities.