Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Attributed to Major Agnes F. Brown, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps and Territorial Army Nursing Service

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1960, with Second Award Bar dated 1960, with integral top riband bar, good very fine (3) £70-£90

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

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Agnes Frances Brown took her nursing studies at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton from 1930 to 1933, registering as SRN No. 70388 on 24 November 1933. She joined the Territorial Army Nursing Service in 1934 and was called up for service at the outbreak of the Second World War. Appointed Sister on 31 May 1941, she served with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (T.A.) throughout the War and was advanced Major on 25 December 1953.

Sold with the recipient’s General Nursing Council for England and Wales badge, silver and enamel, engraved to reverse ‘A. F. Brown. S.R.N. 70388 24-11-33.’; A Royal Sussex County Hospital badge, enamel and base metal, reverse engraved ‘A. F. Brown 70388’, this with significant enamel damage and lacking catch for affixing wearing pin.