Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Sister F. M. Crocker. P.M.R.A.F.N.S.) in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine £260-£300

The General Service Medal with clasp Palestine was the first campaign medal awarded to Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, with only approximately 40 awards made.

Florence Margaret Crocker trained at the Royal Free Hospital, London, from 1932 to 1935, and qualified as a Nurse on 22 November 1935. She was appointed Sister in Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service on 14 December 1937, and the July 1938 Air Force List shows Miss Crocker serving at R.A.F. Halton; and then in the March 1939 Air Force List she is shown serving at R.A.F. Habbaniya, Iraq. The R.A.F. had hospitals at both Halton and Habbaniya. She resigned her appointment on 16 June 1941, and the following month married Squadron Leader P. B. Chamberlain at Scarborough; tragically, Chamberlain was killed on operations just three months later, on the night of 12 October 1941, whilst serving with 75 Squadron on an operational sortie to Nuremberg.

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