Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Nursing Sister Alice B. Noble, Army Nursing Service Reserve

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister A. B. Noble.) officially re-impressed naming as typically encountered with QSAs to nurses; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister A. B. Noble.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, good very fine (3) £300-£400

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

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Glendinings, December 1991.

Alice Beatrice Noble took her nursing studies at the Royal Hospital in Sheffield and enrolled in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve as No. 8 on 1 March 1897. Sent to South Africa, she served at No. 5 General Hospital in January 1900, and later nursed at No. 4 General Hospital at Mooi River and No. 12 Stationary Hospital at Ladysmith. She is believed to be one of five nurses of the A.N.S.R. selected to receive the 1911 Coronation Medal.