Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (Sister. J. Lester. Q.A.I.M.N.S.) minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £80-£100

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

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Marjorie Juliet Lester was born on 12 July 1912 and trained as a nurse from 1934 to 1937 at the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich. Qualifying SRN No. 85995 on 19 March 1937, she was appointed to a commission in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 13 August 1945. Converted to Subaltern upon the formation of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, she served in Palestine at the Bir Yaacov Military Hospital from 15 September 1946 to 18 September 1947 and was raised Junior Commander in March 1950. Transferred to Malaya and Gibraltar, Lester retired to pension in the rank of Major on 12 July 1967.

Sold with copied research.