Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ward Maid F. Garland. I.Y. H.P. Staff.); together with the recipient’s Royal British Nurses Association Diploma Medal, with Steadfast & True top riband bar, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1913, reverse engraved ‘F. A. Garland.’, very fine (2) £300-£400

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

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Frances Garland was born in Blackwall, Poplar, in 1876, and served at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in South Africa as Ward Maid - a role devoted to women who looked after the nurses and were employed on housekeeping type duties. Returned home to London, Garland subsequently took her nursing studies at the Whitechapel Infirmary from December 1903 to March 1907 and took employment in private nursing.

Sold with copied research from the Nurses’ Journal of September 1910, which notes Royal approval of the design of the newly-created R.B.N.A. Diploma Medal.